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There's also the bribery from the spoils of imperialism and settler-colonialism. The aspects you bring up are often more subtle and related to the superstructure, which reinforces that which already exists at the base level. Hell, there is a semi-colony of New Afrikans within the US (the Black Belt theory), and the US itself is a settler-colony.
Founded on and steeped in isn’t base level enough? 😂
When I mean base and superstructure, I am referring to the base as the mode of production and distribution (ie, imperialist and settler-colonialist capitalism in the US), and the superstructure as the aspects of society that reinforce and maintain that. Laws, culture, art, the state, etc are all part of the superstructure. The base and superstructure reinforce each other, but the base is primary, and the superstructure secondary. This is a Marxist understanding of the subject.
Yes, I was trying to get at that reinforcement in my comment. Perhaps I was unclear.
Ah, gotcha!
Nah, I mean, I didn’t say it. I was just trying to not write a novel for once, but alas.
Fair, lol.