populism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Aug 26 11:30:05 PDT 2001


Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> don't you think that for a white tenant farmer in the
> south, surrounded by sectional resentment on the part
> of people with firearms, and pushed into destitution
> unto starvation, your imperative is asking a lot?
>

Probably. Which was one of the reasons that populism was and is reactionary. It can't confront racism, racist institutions, and racist practice, and hence will always end up in the pocket of its enemies.

The point is that however impossible it may seem to base a left politics on anti-racism, every other approach is doomed from the beginning -- hopelessly utopian.

Carrol



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