Horowitz/Reparations for slavery

Dennis Breslin dbreslin at ctol.net
Sat Mar 10 10:33:38 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> As Gar suggested earlier, if you think that racism is in the interest
> of "white workers," your effort to diminish or abolish racism must
> rest upon an ethical appeal that is not rooted in an objective ground
> for solidarity, instead of political education that seeks, in
> practice, to bring about a realization that racism is not in the
> interest of the working class. The same goes for sexism.
>

You may have already answered this - I'm swamped in emails... But why, if indeed you do, support reparations? The efforts involved in the reparations movement may involved ethical appeals, but it also recognizes that there may be no objective ground for solidarity, or in a more optimistic view, that any thought of an objective ground is premature so long as neither the pass exploitation or current forms are overcome. I think there's gonna have to be a lot political education and not a little of it will also involve ethical appeals in order to make comprehensible the larger shared interests of the working class.

DB



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