Quotas and the revival of racism

Abstract

Quotas arise in the context of the Reagan and Thatcher governments. The dismantling of the Welfare State and its replacement by neoliberalism had, as one of its ideological counterparts, the policy of quotas that “compensated” for inequalities. The “most illustrated” neoliberal argument in favor of quotas ended up becoming the central node of the many variations of ethnic corporatism typical of postmodernism: the relationship between social classes would not contain racial inequalities within it, in such a way that the overcoming of property private exploitation of man by man would not imply the historical overcoming of racism.