[Fwd: Race in America]

[Carrol Cox]

Comment: Some non-marxists have a better grasp of the history that must
inform any workers' movement than many marxists do. As far as I know, in
the United States no mass movement grounded primarily among white males
has *ever* succeeded (and few really even tried) to incorporate the 60+%
of the working class that is either female or non-white or both. Any
communist movement that does not place primary emphasis (in what Mark
Jones calls the long run-up to insurrection) on incorporating women and
minorities will never influence more than a very small minority of the
working class -- since most workers who are sexist, racist, or
homophobic (objectively or subjectively) are (and always will be)
bitterly anti-communist. In other words, no real revolutionary progress
can be made even among white male workers without placing the
destruction of male supremacy, black subordination, and homophobia in
the forefront of the struggle.

Carrol

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