Race is a belief, an ideology and bourgeois doctrine, which states that humanity consists of different species groups at different evolutionary stages of biological development, and by default the ruling class is genetically superior and engineered to rule over the earth and the people of the world. Racism justifies class rule and exploitation of labor. Race doctrine states that physical, cultural and ethical differences between people are the reason for the division of humanity into classes, superior and inferior, ruling and ruled, oppressing and oppressed peoples.
Racism is not the cause of inequality and the ancient colonial-like division of humanity into ruled and rulers. Racism is justification for class-based inequality and discrimination. Racism says that the reason for exploitation and class inequality is skin color, ethical behavior, morality and cultural differences rather than property relations. It is bourgeois ideology and should not be used in analysis.
Any feature of a group that distinguishes it from another group can serve as an ideology of hate and doctrine of superiority.
(See, Class, Color line, National question, White chauvinism, White supremacy.)
Excerpt From: Darryl Mitchell. “Marxist Glossary Mini Edition 3.0.” iBooks.
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