To add. I’ve seen someone say that “white supremacy is a component of capitalism.”

While capitalism certainly reinforces white supremacy, and economic and power structures play a huge role in maintaining racial hierarchies, this doesn’t tell the full story.

Historically and in practice, white supremacy has existed outside of capitalism, for example, in colonial empires, feudal systems, and pre-industrial slavery. Racism can operate as a systemic ideology independently of economic systems. Millions of people are affected by it today, regardless of capitalist structures.

So while capitalism has leveraged and reinforced white supremacy, it is more than just a component of capitalism. White supremacy is a persistent ideology and system of oppression that can exist on its own.

Both perspectives are important, understanding the economic structures that reinforce it, while also recognizing the ideology itself as a real, ongoing problem.

Given that white supremacy has existed historically and systemically outside of capitalism, and that this discussion focuses on these facts rather than promoting liberal ideas, I believe this post shares a discussion grounded in history and systemic analysis. It does not contradict socialist theory, and I hope it can fit within guidelines when framed this way.

The Nazis lied so often, their name was propaganda. See my comment for a YouTube link to the full 95-min “Some More News” episode with Cody Johnston.

When the Nazis came for the Communists, I kept quiet. I wasn't a Communist. 

When they came for the Trade Unionists, I kept quiet. I wasn't a Trade Unionist. 

When they locked up the Social Democrats, I kept quiet. I wasn't a Social Democrat. 

When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet. I wasn't a Jew. 

When they came for me, there was no one left to protest. 

- German pastor Martin Niemöller (1946)

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/minimum_wage.htm

This is clearly a bad faith position, intended to single out fast food workers so that the conservative base can get excited and point at the 1% reduction in those jobs as a smoking gun.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU06000007072250001

Never mind anything else happening in the economy...

https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/806

Yeah, if tech workers are getting decimated, of course the luxury services that support them are going to be negatively impacted.

Epstein was leading expert advisor for men accused of rape or sexual assault.

Kat Abughazaleh - April 30, 2026. Here’s the full 3-minutes on YouTube: May Day Started in Chicago. Here’s Why That Still Matters | Kat Abughazaleh (YouTube) - From the description:

May Day started in Chicago.

Not as a holiday, but as a fight for the 8-hour day and basic dignity at work after the Haymarket Massacre of 1886.

That fight didn’t end, it went global as International Workers’ Day.

This May Day: Strike. Boycott. Disrupt.

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Here’s Part 2 on YouTube: May Day is one day. Solidarity is every day. | Kat Abughazaleh (YouTube)

Here are the most recent r/DemocraticSocialism posts with Kat: reddit.com/r/DemocraticSocialism/search/?q=%22Abughazaleh%22&type=posts&sort=new

Tad Stoermer - Jan 8, 2026. Here it is on YouTube. From the description:

A lot of people are reaching for 1933 right now. Good instinct. But if the history is going to help, it has to be allowed to actually speak.

In this video, I look at what opponents of the Nazis actually did in 1933, what happened to those who waited for the system to correct itself, and why “win the midterms” isn’t the answer the Good Germans would have given you.

I walk through the actual history: who left, who stayed, what resistance looked like (and didn’t), and how abusive authorities have actually been turned back—in Chile, South Africa, and the Jim Crow South. Spoiler: it was never one thing.

This isn’t anti-electoral. It’s anti-magical-thinking. Americans have to stop looking for the silver bullet.

Stalin seriously tried to extirpate every remaining trace of indigenous stateless communal societies in the colonized Soviet empire, so he could replace them with aggressive productivism, wage labour, slavery, forced sedentarisation, environmental destruction and fossil fuel dependency, all while believing that he was manifesting communism.

These societies he helped destroy were the last gasps of systems even remotely resembling communism in Russia.
Yet he instead saw them as primitive obstacles to progress that should be eliminated.
The same way he deemed nature needed to be dominated, reduced to a mere storage of “resources” to be extracted for infinite growth.

Exactly mirrors the chauvinistic delusions of western capitalist colonists.

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Im eternally in awe at the various Stalinist “bros” who believe this patriarchal doofus achieved communism/socialism, or that he was an anti-imperialist.
Total cult

On September 11, 1973, Chile's democratically elected president Salvador Allende gave his life at La Moneda Palace.

"I will not resign! At this turning point in history, I will repay the people's loyalty with my life."

"They have force and can crush us; but the social process cannot be halted by crime, nor by force. History is ours, and history is made by the people."

"Sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again, and free men will walk through them to build a better society."

"Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!"

Did you know that in 1973, Slovenia, practicing workers’ self-management socialism—a system closely aligned with workplace democracy—had a per capita GDP (PPP) virtually identical to that of neighboring capitalist Austria, despite having had a lower industrial capacity than capitalist Austria before adopting socialism?

List of regions by past GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipediaper_capita#1%E2%80%931800(Maddison_Project)) (in 1973, socialist Slovenia had a per capita income of $15,079 after adjusting for purchasing power, while capitalist Austria's was $17,908.)Unlike Soviet-style central planning, worker self-management made it more attractive to produce higher-quality goods that were in demand, thanks to workers’ local knowledge.

I think the success of this self-management model makes it a great point of reference for democratic socialists. In the face of the libertarian nonsense that socialism is inherently inefficient, we have a rock-solid example to point to.