Anti-Racist Politics (was Populism)

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Sun Aug 26 11:34:25 PDT 2001


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

o.k. I'm understanding you a bit more.

What does 'left politics based on anti-racism' mean in practice? Opposition to discrimination within capitalist institutions of employment and education? If so, by what means? Quotas? Reparations? In what form?

There's something strangely a-socialist about it, sort of 'real' liberalism. Or is it white support for black nationalism? And, for whatever your answer is, why should a white guy support it? Because it's the right thing to do?

mbs



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