Populism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Aug 25 20:08:09 PDT 2001


Chris Kromm wrote:
>
> -- many, many radical movements throughout American history of
> personalized members of the ruling class to make their organizing more
> effective (Socialists at the turn of the century onwards). That's why they
> were successful,

And just how were they successful? Do you call a movement in the U.S. that tolerated rabid racists among its leadership (as did Debs's socialist party) "successful"? An odd concept of success. Any radical movement in the U.S. must be measured by the impact it has on racial oppression and on the support of racial oppression among workers.

Carrol



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