Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO...

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 29 15:43:17 PST 2002


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: but I do think that anarchism is the
> whitest political
> tendency in the USA. Anarchists may be, on balance,
> whiter than
> Republicans (who have learned to use affirmative
> action when it suits
> them -- Clarence Thomas, Linda Chavez, Colin Powell,
> Condoleezza
> Rice, etc.).

You seem to imply that American anarchists are "wrong" or perhaps even "racist" because it is (or so you say) whiter than other groups.

Does the fact that the Democrats or the Republicans for that matter have black members make them "right"?

Back in my leninist days (a long long time ago) I belonged to the Communist Workers Party which was BY FAR more racially heterogeneous than any of the existing left parties in the USA. What did that mean? Did it mean we we had the correct "line"? Should people have just automatically signed up with us because we had large numbers of blacks, hispanics and asians? Is that the criterion?

Of course that is what we thought. It was just tokenism, which is a rabid form of racism on the Left (and, in the case of Republicans, the Right).

-Thomas

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