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=== Structural racism and "the Base" ===

Within the United States — where a large portion of writings about structural racism are focused — one important factor that people tend to overlook is that while U.S. "democracy" is almost solely focused on official and legal remedies for racism, most of the actual problems tend to happen deep below the legal layer, or even below the layer of anything that is codified onto paper or "official". When slavery was abolished people still wanted segregation, and created Jim Crow laws. Once discrimination itself was made illegal people repeatedly tried to find new ways to continue not enforcing it or getting around it.<ref name="brave"/> Relative to any formal layer of structure which is [[E:superstructure (meta-Marxism)|produced around a structure's members]], structural racism exists within the [[E:base (meta-Marxism)|basic layer]]; the layer on which racism exists is the same layer which has the very ability to form and dissolve structures. This can make it challenging to properly address the source of the problems, when effectively the solution and the problem [[E:contradiction (Marxism)|share the same material object]]. It can become tempting to simply give up on trying to analyze any actual forms of social organization and begin shouting at the underlying unstructured population-chunks or individuals to change. However, this is unlikely to be effective. Physical structures and immaterial attitudes each come out of underlying pieces [[E:relativistic determinism|actively interacting together]] to produce them, which is to say that if people are approached outside structures and out of context no change is likely to occur. The better theoretical approach is not to try to [[E:Lacanian psychoanalysis|disassemble humans]] and figure out how they work inside, but to start at individual humans and begin reconstructing the physical arrangement of humans [[:Category:Bauplan ontologies|into populational units and societies]] to find arrangements which have less toxic effects on human psychology and which are stable.

Every population of people collected together contains internal structure. These units of internal structure join together to make that population its own unique countable population. By understanding internal social structures, which may be as simple and familiar as "towns" and "schools", or may be as relatively unfamiliar as "industrial conglomerate" or "collection of soviets", Marxist theorists could hypothetically build working models of how to create functioning populations inside a large nation-region, either toward the goal of populational health and fulfilling basic needs, or toward the goal of taking out internal imbalances that lead majority populations to fight each other over the same things and continually spread in all directions. Although populations currently separate and conflict with each other, and the concept of "two populations" may sound ominous, the ability to understand chunks of people as nothing more than physical objects has the power to make segregation unnecessary. The disorganized character of underlying chunks is part of the reason these "populational border conflicts" even happen, disorder ironically leading to a violent attempt to create order. If people were committed to being structures and knowing what openings existed where, people looking to move between populations and "mix the races" might find it easier to do so safely without stirring up these conflicts. People's psychological understanding of ethnicities and how not to be racist might lag behind for a while, but if there were actual literature modeling every basic thing about the development of the other population or populations and the concept of daily life for a generalized person living in those "country characteristics", people might find it easier to learn to make actual informed decisions on under what conditions they would choose to move to and live in the other population in a normal way without causing trouble. The separation of populations from ethnicity <i>per se</i> and the movement toward populations as more resembling nationalities though not exactly being nations would help solidify the ability for people to "choose" to be aligned with a population or not instead of having identity forced onto them, and thus stop feeling threatened by the notion of more identities casually existing and developing.