> *Some* anti-racists derive enjoyment from calling out racism - anti-racism
> "from on high" as it were. . . . It's really important to
> be able to distinguish what drives an ideological position.
This is especially offensive, coming as it does from one who postures so righteously that he feels no obligation to express a lick of solidarity for those on the front lines of stuggle against racism, or its victims, but instead spins absurd programs for them from the safety of his (very aloof, very safe, very white) tower "on high." In fact, it is not important to distinguish what "drives" one's allies in struggle, except in the overall base-and-superstructure meaning, since, after all, it is in the superstructure, where ideology takes precedence over the forces and relations of production, that the actual battles occur. It is precisely for that reason that we call upon all people of good will, not only those with a clear class interest, to join in the struggle. KM's statement is an attempt to reduce the meaning of actual involvement so that hubristic pontificating can be regarded as equal or superior, by the corrupt device of questioning individual motives. Pretty disgusting.
Ken Lawrence