[lbo-talk] The Million Worker March: Black People Did Not Get the Vote By Voting

[Brad Mayer]

I love it.  The MWM is putting all the right people on the wrong side of 
things - what an embarrassment it's going to be for them in the future. 
N.N. goes on on about CPUSA History 101 like it used to be you know, the 
progressive heroism of the old American bourgeoisie since the Civil War- 
what's that got to do with the very different present?  When are we going to 
stop dumbly following a tactic - now mistaken for a "strategy" - laid down 
by that party 60 or more more years ago?

No, African-Americans got the vote in the South because 1) they struggled 
for it in the South, and 2) the Repubs of that time saw an opportunity to 
break into the Dems' "Solid South".  When they started getting "uppity" in 
the North in the 1960's, they were met with bloody repression.

But at leat N.N. shows he can cheer on the Repubs as well as the Dems.

-Brad Mayer
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:01:06 -0400
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The headline on the original post is just flat out wrong. <snip!>