This brother was not citing a theoretical tract or offering this as political scripture, but rather to make the point about how racism and anti-communism are the two most potent weapons for dividing the working class and have been used both alternatively and together by some of the same forces. Recall I described this rep as an older African American staffer. The largest unit he worked with was a large foundary that employed a workforce composed in the majority of Black workers with Southern roots and among the whites a fair number who were from Appalachia. He made the point in simple statement of a few words...and they got it.
Michael
At 01:04 PM 6/7/98 -0400, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>> union rep with whom I once worked put it, "Scratch a racist and
>> you find an
>> anti-communist; scratch an anti-communist and you'll find a racist. The
>> venom that flows in their veins is the same."
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