in defense of opportunism/hating the white working class

[Apsken at aol.com]

>  Steve Perry wrote:
>  
>  >in other words, i think the distrust of
>  >opportunism round here is synonymous with a
>  >distrust and distaste for the white working
>  >class at large--those (mostly urban) few who
>  >are still members of organized labor perhaps excepted. where exactly is 
the
>  >left to go,
>  >what is it to do, as long as this prejudice
>  >obtains?

    I took considerable pains last week, in my two-part post on Guns, 
Politics, and American Culture, to show the actual way that left organizers 
approach the United States working class, including its white sectors, and 
even right-wing insurgents. I contrasted those experiences to the 
Cockburn-St.Clair infatuation with right-wing gun culture, and showed that 
much of their claim is false. Not one person has rebutted my post in any 
respect, yet Steve Perry puts forth this caricature again, as if it had not 
been answered. Perry is indeed the opportunist, as he admits, but that has 
nothing to do with supporting genuine working-class insurgents, white or 
otherwise.

Ken Lawrence