Interpreting White's (2020) 'How is capitalism racial? Fanon, critical theory and the fetish of antiblackness.'

For those not aware, I occasionally post my attempts at understanding theory by using infographics.

With this infographic I have attempted to clarify my understanding of Hylton White's (2020) argument that the structure of modern society "calls forth in the present the fetishised representations of capital and of labour", and that the huge force and contemporary salience of antiblackness and antisemitism occupy a dualistic relation.

White builds on the work of the likes of Fanon and Postone to argue that the structure of social action under capitalism generates fetishistic representations of its own functioning - Jewishness as the power of money ('capital-in-itself'), and blackness as the power of biology ('labour-in-itself'). These representations, as racial antisocial types, must be embedded in any analysis of class within different historical and contemporary settings.

Reference:

White, H. (2020). How is capitalism racial? Fanon, critical theory and the fetish of antiblackness. Social Dynamics, 46(1), 22-35.

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