Horowitz/Reparations for slavery

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 8 14:24:54 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>To paraphrase Art, the _nature_ of the _idea_ of "the white working
>class" (with its own "group interests" to be protected from black &
>other discriminated-against workers) _is_ ignorance, backwardness,
>treachery, and reaction.

This is what I meant by racism without racists. How can an idea be ignorant or treacherous? It's because people who hold that idea - consciously or not - act ignorantly and treacherously (though like I keep saying, plenty of union workers have done their best consciously to exclude nonwhite nonmen).

Doug



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