> 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.
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> 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
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Wojtek, How is killing god knows how many innocent persons (thanks to the
lack of decent legal aid access afforded the poor) going to do anything to
solve the problem of racisim in the US? Or that guy's racist attitudes
and actions...?
Steve
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