> In part they do emerge from capitalism, as do all countersystemic
movements
> in capitalist society, including socialism. I agree that the formal
equality
> capitalism imposes on all workers is a source of anti-racism. But it is
not
> the only source. Historically, antiracism in America was tied in the
early
> decades of this century to Communism--through the 1940s, the CPUSA was
almost
> the only political force not rooted in the Black community to put
antiracism
> front and center, and Hoover was quite right that even the civil rights
> movement of the 50s and 60s have a Commie coloration in its white
components.
and where does the communist movement come from? another planet? it works within the spaces between capitalism's contradictions and with those contradictions, which is also why debates over various (most, all) things within the communist movement seem so interminable, despite the valiant efforts to wish them into a theoretical resolution.
you counterposed equality with freedom. where does our sense -- and contradictory and conflicting senses -- of what freedom means come from?
Angela _________