A typical sectarian ploy. Defend banal Marxist abstractions while denouncing concrete struggles against the capitalist system.
>And such historic
>and revolutionary class consciousness can only find its source in Marx's
>*Capital* and of course requires for its achievement the overcoming of the
>internal divisions within the proletariat that have haunted it as much its
>conflict with capital--whether we talk about Irish and English workers,
>Algerian and French workers, Asian American and white workers, Black
>workers and trabajodores sin papeles, women and men. In this sense, the
>politics of "race" and "gender" are of paramount importance.
More platitudes. Without an analysis of how to achieve this, one might as well just call for communism. Armchair revolutionaries like Rakesh think that making these appeals has something to do with changing the world. I think Walter Mitty had a firmer grasp on reality.
>Omali Yeshiteli's Uhuru House outfit to whom I lost a good white high
>school friend made its key issue not unemployment, discrimination in
>hiring on in the workplace, not the schools but the "genocidal" adoption
>of black babies by white foster parents.
So what is your point? By the time this was happening, the black nationalist movement in the US had been either smashed by the state or destroyed by ultraleftism. This is about as valid a criticism of black nationalism as a critique of Marxism would be based on the Spartacist League or MIM. Your anecdote is inconsequential and is a sign of analytical weakness. Ronald Reagan was fond of anecdotes as well. Perhaps you should run for office.
> Of course the search is justified to some
>extent by the assault on the common humanity of blacks and the response
>by blacks and non racists alike to this leads quite understandably in
>often irrational directions.
You are the most irrational person I have encountered in a long while. Calling Malcolm X a fascist is plain nuts.
>There is however the undernoticed side of
>racist projection here, i.e., the projection on to *whites* of all of the
>reification, practico inertness of modernity and the celebration of black
>in Bergsonian terms, as Senghor did--those who intuit deeper truths by
>their participation in the flow of life. We have here the path from
>Marcuse to the Weathermen, as a Neil McInnes would perhaps put it.
Yes, you have an excellent point. When I was listening to the Wu Tang Clan rapping about Malcolm X the other day, I was reminded of what CLR James said about chapter 11 of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. He thought that the dialectic of the negation led to a supertransmogrification of the historical IDEA (in German, aufgespritzkackendreckmittglockenspiel). Check the August '97 copy of Race, Class and Trout-Fishing for the article by Leroy Fleem for more on this.
>rise of an Aryan or racial theory of history, though I must say that I
>never understood the fascination with Cheikh Ante Diop.
Maybe it is because you are totally clueless about black people.
Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)