The origins and causes of European-American racism

The Black Lives Matters movement has grown in the West to unimaginable proportions. It covers a diverse audience from homeless people to show business stars. Among his assets are large rallies, riots and pogroms. Western presidents and prime ministers are promoting themselves on BLM.

The main ideology of the BLM movement is the so-called critical theory of race, which was formed on the basis of the description of racial discrimination in the United States and has grown to a fashionable interdisciplinary approach in the scientific community, which puts the issue of inequality of races and discrimination at the center of any social issue.

Critical Race Theory

The critical theory of race is based on four basic tenets: 1) the need to achieve racial equality, 2) the concept of "race" mediates all social relations, 3) dominant groups do not want to recognize racial discrimination, 4) racial minorities need to be sensitively listened to. The most scandalous appeal made by the supporters of this theory is the requirement for "whites" to apologize for "privileges" and "discrimination". Thus, kneeling has become a symbol of "solidarity with the victims of racism."

Hundreds of scholars and writers delve into the racial issues of the United States and Europe. Their logic goes something like this: "White" Americans and Europeans are inveterate racists, therefore "colored" people in the US and Europe are discriminated against and oppressed. They are scourged by the "whites", oppressed by the state and capital, killed by the police. As a result of resistance, racial riots occur. And all these figures are racking their brains over how to end racism, offering different options. Trainings, PR campaigns are carried out, quotas are introduced here and there, censorship rules are invented for TV and cinema. The masses of "colored" and radically-minded white youth themselves go out to protests, organize pogroms, practice "loot", demand kneeling and public self-flagellation.

In some ways, the concept vaguely resembles class theory or Jacobin practice during the Great French Revolution: if you are against the republic, then you are against France. Some see this as a progressive aspect of the BLM movement, as the broad masses are "fighting against oppression."

More or less sane experts note that the aggressive implantation of a critical theory of races and methods of combating discrimination, on the contrary, leads to incitement of racism under the hypocritical mask of observance of anti-racist rituals. At least the vast American practice of endlessly talking about racism, discussing racist issues, repenting to “whites” and expressing solidarity with “colored people” does not in any way change their real social status.

How it all began

American and European right-wingers, as well as some of our "patriots" are extremely hostile to the BLM movement, ridiculing invented rituals, clumsiness and delusional anti-racist measures. All these hypocritical genuflections, idiotic quotas and censorship, really, from the outside, do not cause anything but a smile, but it does not follow from this that Western society is free from racism and there is no problem.

Modern Europeans are descended from the barbarian peoples that surrounded the Roman Empire. They built their states on the remnants of the Roman Empire and settled in North America. Their whole history is a history of wars, enslavements and genocide. They took from ancient culture only the most bloody and misanthropic, including Roman law.

Old and new Europe became the cradle of capitalism, but they used all the advantages of the rapid development of factory production, a new and higher economic order to conquer backward peoples, following the urges of the law of competition. Their attitude to the rest of the world was based on the barbaric principle: since I am stronger, then I am right, then I am the superior race. At first, Romanesque racism dominated, then Anglo-Saxon took over the palm. “Scientific concepts” were summed up under European leadership, policy, writers, philosophers, biologists. Therefore, the emergence of Italian-German fascism in the XX century. can be viewed as an attempt by some "masters" to squeeze out other "masters" in the world domination.

The era of enlightenment, which gave rise to the humanism and democracy generally accepted today, caused some rethinking of the ideological superstructure, but did not change the fundamental economic foundations of European domination. Therefore, the spiritual world of old and new Europe turned out to be contradictory, on the one hand, universal human values ​​and norms are recognized in the field of ideas, on the other hand, aggression, enslavement, colonialism and neo-colonialism continue in the sphere of economics and politics. In the same America, the civil war, which was going on as if under the guise of the abolition of slavery, in reality was a means of a more developed North for the annexation and destruction of weaker competitors from the southern states.

The modern problematics of European racism stems from the complex and contradictory history of the formation of European civilization. Therefore, the claim that Europeans and "white" Americans, despite all their progressive declarations and charters, are racists is 100% true. And for them "colored" - not only Negroes, Asians, Latin Americans, Arabs, Indians, Turks, Indians, Gypsies, Armenians, but also Slavs, Celts and Finno-Ugrians.

The ideologues of critical race theory are looking for an answer to the question of overcoming racism in the United States and Europe in the practice of life. However, it is known that it is impossible to find the correct answer to an incorrectly posed question, no matter how much you look into practice. The problem of the USA and Europe is not in racism as such, racist attitude is not a reason for discrimination, but a consequence of poverty, squalor, ignorance of American and European “colored people”.

If we talk about the racist attitude towards its citizens, which is more typical for the United States, then the problem is that racial minorities occupy a miserable position in social production. Thus, blacks, Asians and Latinos make up 60% of the labor force in agriculture, 70% of cleaners and servants, 75% of porters and porters, while their share as a whole in the US labor force is only 36%. The unemployment rate is twice the level of "whites". The average salary of the "colored" is much lower, the average income of a white family is ten times higher than that of a black one. Funding per capita for schools with predominantly white students is 20% higher than for those with non-white students. "Colored" in the United States - this is the very bottom of society, a cheap, disenfranchised labor force and a mass of under-educated lumpen proletarians, interrupted by temporary earnings and living on benefits. It is clear that such a position of the racial minority causes contempt among the "whites" brought up in European culture.

If we talk about racist attitudes towards migrants, which is more typical for Europe, then the picture is even more clear. Household hatred of migrants is a consequence of their unenviable position in social production.

Trying to change the attitude of "white" American and European inhabitants towards people of other races is a futile business. It is the low social status that is the real reason for racism towards blacks, Asians, Latin Americans, Hindus, Slavs, etc. and their reciprocal racism towards "whites", above all as the personification of the institutions of oppression. The critical theory of races was only able to varnish racism, primarily because it only superficially affects the sphere of economics.

Supporters of the BLM movement should, among other things, consider studying the history of Russia.

The liberation of the blacks in the USA in 1865 was akin to the liberation of the serfs in Russia in 1861. American landowners at that time were actively adopting the experience of the Russian landowners, copying our sharecropping. The American Negro, like the Russian peasant, became a half-slave sharecropper as a result of his release. The American Negro fled from the South to the North, as the Russian peasant fled from the central agricultural provinces to the capitals and to the Don. In addition, in tsarist times, on the outskirts of the empire, peoples lived so downtrodden, oppressed and oppressed that in terms of status and cultural level they were no higher than American blacks.

However, by the middle of the XNUMXth century, the picture had changed dramatically. In the USSR, even the most backward collective farmer, even the most far-flung Chukchi, was a hundred times closer to the average Soviet citizen in terms of living standards and level of cultural development than the American Negro to his "white" counterpart in the United States. So the ideologists of Black Lives Matter should study the system of Soviet events in the field of national and peasant issues, think about what made the dark Russian man in bast shoes a space explorer.