In an article for Left Hook (a radical youth journal based in the US), Rodney Foxworth, an intern at Baltimore’s City Paper takes aim at color-blind Marxism.
…An anti-racist dialogue enables whites to consider their role in the maintenance of a system of rampant inequality founded on racism, specifically white supremacy. This echoes the sentiments of Du Bois and his suggestion that poor whites maintained the institution of slavery; an anti-racist interpretation of Marxism might provide the tools to prevent this reoccurrence. The goal isn’t to offend whites, but to divest them from their “possessive investment in whiteness,” thus allowing for the cross-racial solidarity deemed necessary by activists and theorists.
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