Black Radical Congress and "the Left"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Carrol wrote:
>The same applies to questions of gender. As long as leftist circles are
>cluttered with the likes of whatever nut it was who recently declared that
>women have a biological destiny as "mothers" (thereby showing his
>ignorance of both biology and history), there is going to be a continuing
>need for women's caucuses. Such a use of pseudo-biology puts him in the
>same category of pseudo scientists as Murray et al., and there is no way
>women can defend either themselves or, more importantly, The Left as a
>whole, against such troglodytism without the continuation of "exclusively"
>women's organizations and caucuses.

Those who complain of the existence of such entities as Black Radical
Congress should first of all change the practice of leftist circles in such
a way that there won't be any need for black organizations, women's
organizations, etc. A good number of lbo-talkers (and folks who contribute
to other left journals + e-lists) have made it abundantly clear that
anti-racism, anti-sexism, etc. shall remain marginal to their conceptions
of the 'left.' So why complain when blacks, for instance, get together to
address the issues that many white leftists feel aren't central to their
political theory and practice?

Yoshie