After reading the passage, choose the best answer to the question based on what is stated or implied in the passage below: A Marxist sociologist argue...

After reading the passage, choose the best answer to the question based on what is stated or implied in the passage below:

A Marxist sociologist argues that racism originates from the class struggle inherent in the capitalist system, suggesting that racial prejudice is a tool used by capitalists to control workers. This theory fits well with discrimination against Blacks in the United States. He defines racial prejudice as “radically-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition.” This definition could also include hostility toward groups like the Chinese in California and Jews in medieval Europe. However, since prejudice against these groups was not caused by capitalists, he dismisses the idea that such antagonisms were truly racial. He thus unconvincingly explains away the intolerance faced by Jews before capitalism and the early 20th-century discrimination against Oriental people in California, which was actually initiated by workers.

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