Racisme et alienation
Racism and Alienation

Summary/Abstract: The hypothesis explored in this paper is that racism is a form of ideology, in Marx's sense of ideology. By relating racism to the concepts of alienation and faise consciousness, we can not only characterize racism but also distinguish it from the parasitic phenomenon of pseudo-racism. The concept of racism is defmed with reference to four criteria: (a) unwarranted extrapolation, (b) the idea that sorne groups are biologically superior to others, (c) the postulate that the alleged biologieal superiority confers special rights, (d) the degradation of rationality.

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