I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of acquiring still more capital. But, before a certain moment in historical time, it had never been easy for such individuals to do this successfully.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.