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“The Trouble with Race” is the theme of Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of U.S. imperialism’s leading think-tank. “The Trouble with Racist Capitalism” would be more appropriate.
Six articles reach similarly pessimistic conclusions. Proposed solutions are weak and unconvincing.  Communist revolutionary enthusiasm stands in stark contrast.
“Race in the Modern World” sets the tone.  “The dream of a world beyond race ... is likely to be long deferred,” concludes the author.
“Does Affirmative Action Work?” advises, “politicians [to] set modest targets” because “affirmative action policies can ... be symbolically important, even if economically ineffective.”
Communism will mobilize masses to undo centuries of racist practices, unlike the capitalist affirmative action charades the author researched. Communist revolution will eliminate the material basis of racism inherent in the capitalist profit-centric production model. We’ll produce for our needs, relying on the strength of a united working class for communism to succeed.
Racist pay differentials will end along with wages. We will launch a mass campaign to wipe out the division between mental and manual labor.
“Affirmative” hiring will no longer threaten jobs of those already working. New hires will mean helping hands.
New workers will not be pigeonholed in job categories. They will no longer compete with veteran workers for higher-paying positions. There will be no higher- or lower-paying positions.
The whole concept of training and education would be uprooted and replaced. For example, machinists would be engineers as well and healthcare hierarchies will end.  
Compare this mass mobilization to abolish racism on the job with the pathetic solution offered in “Racial Inequality after Racism:
“One idea that holds promise is ... diagnostic methods similar to [bank and financial firm] stress tests.
“For example, a [racial-equality stress] test for large employers might reveal whether their hiring practices treat white and black ex-felons unequally. “
The capitalist financial model with its stress tests, regulations and laws is precisely the model we must reject.
The article cites a study showing racism distorts retail markets, saturating African American neighborhoods with unhealthy foods: another of the racist results of school “no-tolerance” policies. His solution? Still more studies! Now with stress tests!
Why not just eliminate markets? While we’re at it, let’s abolish the banks and the rest of the bosses’ financial apparatus.
Communist education will have “no-tolerance” for separating youth from the working class in isolated classrooms, breeding grounds for elitism and racism. Learning will be centered on collective work.
The remaining Foreign Affairs articles focus on Europe, South Africa and Latin America.
European governments “have multicultural policies that place communities in constricting boxes or assimilationist ones that distance minorities from the mainstream.”
“South Africa will never be free of interracial animosities. ... People too often rely on stereotypes to understand members of other groups.”
Black and indigenous “in Latin America [160 million out of a population of 600 million] remain the most disadvantaged in a region that ranks among the most unequal in the world.”
These capitalist expert writers offer only vague and uninspiring answers. Europe “needs ... a renewal of civil society.” South Africans “must be willing to tolerate each other.” The “need [for new] policies in Latin America is incontrovertible.”
Communist revolution will quickly destroy the foundation of racism, the production-for-profit model. Communist mass mobilization will root out racist vestiges left over after the seizure of power like racism on the job, in the communities, or in education.
The bosses perfected racism to keep workers apart and fighting each other. Now the imperialists’ most important think-tank cynically says there can be no thought of destroying racism in the foreseeable future--if at all.
Masses mobilized for communism will prove them wrong.

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