The Color of Money

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Sat Dec 2 20:15:32 PST 2000



> >>Well stated. Nothing short of the USA losing a world war or
> >>undergoing socialist transformation would abolish the white race --
> >>since it took the defeat of the Nazis in World War 2 to abolish the
> >>Aryan race.


> >A bit overoptimistic: socialism need not by itself abolish racism.
> >We saw this in the primitive attempts at socialism the Stalinist
> >states attempted. Even if it took an interracial alliance to get
> >socialism, that might not do it. Bolshevism was anti-anti-Semitic;
> >its heir, Stalinism, was unofficial anti-Semitic. However, it would
> >take a transformation at least on that scale to defeat white
> >supremacy. Maybe a greater one.

Yoshie Furuhashi:
> I agree that it's no easy undertaking. The point I would like to
> emphasize on this list at this point is, though, that it would take a
> political struggle of on the order of World War 2 or (as you note) an
> even greater one to abolish racism. It doesn't do to deconstruct
> whiteness in theory, however well-intentioned deconstructors might
> be. One can't analyze whiteness to death.

So we come back to the question of what praxis is suggested by the analysis produced thus far, given that we, the Left, seem unlikely to exert a political force equal to World War II or the Russian revolution any time in the near future.

The BRC, quoted here, seems to want to flog liberalism some more, unless I misunderstand them.



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