death penalty again (was: Responsibility)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 11:20 AM 1/26/00 -0600, Carrol wrote:
>3) An  essential part of capital's rule without overt represision is the
>weakening of labor's willingness and ability to fight through racism,
>and racism cannot continue without a good deal of overt state
>violence. That is, it requires state violence as part of the "smoke"
>of the ideological principle "where there's smoke there's fire." This
>is also, as Wojtek and Max have never been able to understand,
>the principle behind the use of capital punishment -- and why
>labor will never recover its former strength (electorally or otherwise)
>unless it makes opposition to the death penalty central to its
>struggles.

So what follows is that to fight racism whe should rally behind that Texas
guy King who got death penalty for dragging a black man behind his truck.
What would you recommend instead - psychotherapy?

wojtek