Reparations: What does the campaign involve

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Mar 24 03:17:19 PST 2001



>Charles Brown wrote:
>
>>Conyers attended the BRC meeting in Detroit in June 2000, and has
>>long been a champion of the principles in the BRC basic documents,
>>so does that mean his majority Black district elects a BRCer as an
>>authentic voice of Black America ?
>
>Well, there is no authentic voice of black America, is there? The
>white ruling class likes to pick authentic voices - part of the
>luxury of being a ruling class is getting to designate the official
>representatives of groups you oppress - but I would like to hear
>Carrol's justification for a white Marxist doing a similar thing.
>Over the years, he's argued that "outsiders" have no right to offer
>opinions on matters of concern to "insiders" - I remember him making
>that argument about China's membership in the WTO, for example,
>which many non-Chinese oppose as detrimental to the interests of
>Chinese workers - but he does seem to have preferences for who
>represents the insiders. So I'd like to hear the theory behind the
>choosing.
>
>Doug

The theoretical premise behind the choosing is that there are objective interests of the working class which are diametrically opposed to those of capital & that it takes the social emancipation of the proletariat through the abolition of capitalism & establishment of socialism to accomplish the universal emancipation of humanity. Those who have yet to accept this premise probably have a hard time making up his mind as to which voice best represents the interests of black America: Al Gore, George Bush, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, or the Black Radical Congress?

Yoshie



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