Amazing comment. Ever since beginnign to experience gut issues that only appear when I am unemployed or feel my job is under threat, I have observed the ailments of friends and loved ones in a new light. You just added another layer to my questioning. To be clear, I am not reaching conclusions but just asking more questions.
Basically yes. It's only useful in the idealistic universe of grade school political science. In actual politics, collusion, careerism, bribery, etc. will persist. A different set of official rules is only a different starting point for the same inevitable behavior. Furthermore, in America's case, the ultimate check will always be the check the capitalists are writing to the politicians.
Sure. I didn't need and I doubt anybody else needed any convincing of this, but it's still an utter deviation from and completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
Congratulations on derailing yet another meaningful conversation into a one-sided race war.
You are misreading, if reading at all. I have no idea what you're responding to. I definitely didn't do that.
However, their status only ostensibly depended on the color of their skin. Their function was of course literally to labor for the profits of the southern gentile.
Racism is a byproduct of capitalism. The Black Panthers did not repeat this ad nauseam for no reason.