Racism Has Nothing to do With Capitalism

Nelson George from The Lost Treasures of R&B at Elliott Bay Book Company. Charles Mudede
I have to make this as clear as possible. Racism and capitalism are not the same thing, in the way capitalism and democracy are not identical. Racism and democracy are in fact much older than capitalism, which, in my opinion, began with the founding of the Bank of England (1694), an institution that coupled one form of the market (finance, money lending) with one of the main functions of the state (war). Cap