Invention of the white race

[Max Sawicky]

> << 
>  I'm afraid it is your post which is simplistic,
>  by mechanically cataloging statements out of
>  historical context.  Watson is a perfect example
>  of an evolution which ended in racist debacle,
>  but had a very different historical build-up.
>  You could probably write a similar paragraph
>  which dismisses with equal fallaciousness the
>  American labor movement, or American socialism.
>   >>
> But labor or the SP didn't descend into racial paranoia, xenophobia, etc.
> Populism did.  It seems only fair to ask why....

Populism did not remain intact, so there was no
"it" to descend into anything.  The hold of the
Democrats on the South, with all the associated
racism, proved too strong in the end.  What remained
were the industrial components, who passed into
different varieties of socialism and northern
Democratic urban machines.  The racist element
in the latter was not missing but it was not nearly
as strong as in the South, obviously.

What could have been is more interesting than
all-too-familiar, dismal reality.

MBS