Continuing the theme of foundations as sites and expressions of class struggles, class struggles that under racial-capitalism will ultimately be determined by the settler-capital-class (SCC), in this post I explain why when budget size is used as a principal category to study arts organizations, as in this 2024 SMU Arts research “National Trends for Arts and Culture Organizations”, the potential to see the role of the SCC as a key actor in a city’s nonprofit arts sector is entirely missed. While seemingly straightforward and technical, the grouping of organizations by the categories of “large,” “medium,” and, “small” and “BIPOC” and “non-BIPOC” misses the fascinating story taking place: the behind the scene class struggles that are creating these outward differences of budget size and BIPOC/non-BIPOC.

“Anti-capitalism” is increasingly a value of social justice organizations, and socialism is surely a valid anti-capitalism. Naming socialism also gives the opportunity build unity about what it is we want and what steps might take us there. I understand there is a lot of hesitance or even refusal to name socialism.

The title of this post comes from several conversations I have been a part of but it is hardly unique to me, it is a fairly common one. However, I think the answer is fairly straight forward. 1) Employing ideas of Karl Marx does not stop us from putting those ideas in relation to others or to looking at how they do and do not relate to various African/Black ways of beings.

Last year, I read a book that’s really influenced my thinking on the phrase “class struggle”: Domenico Losurdo’s “Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History.” In this post, I am going to try to explain how I understand its core idea and method to add some more clarity and expansiveness to the term “class struggle.” Although it may seem foreign, socialist, or white, we often hear or use “class” in terms of “the Black middle class” or “the working class. So, its not really a foreign term.

We need to reexamine this term “grant.” How is that the exchange of money for labor or a service, accompanied by a multi-point contract in 6 font, in the context of racial capitalism, is anything other than a sale of a commodity?