Any definition of class structure that allows some people to be ‘outside’ of it is a bad & ahistorical onehttps://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1102545500065153024 …
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Categorizing enslaved people as property, as real estate, as a commodity, necessarily meant they were not on the level of laboring white people, no matter how poor those white people were. They were an untouchable caste and so normal class dynamics did not and do not apply.
The best thing about that first Tweet is that "historical" is meant to refer to a particular Marxist interpretation of history and not to actual historical events as they happened in the US
