[lbo-talk] Identity vs. class politics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 27 13:24:21 PST 2007


On Jan 27, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> On 1/27/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>> > Americans never had "a class-based politics" independent of white
>> > supremacy, so they couldn't have taken flight from what they didn't
>> > have.
>>
>> Never is a slight overstatement. There have been moments - some of
>> the populists, for example. Not all, for sure, but some.
>
> They basically lost.

Yes they did. And I guess we should conclude that they will lose forever, that things are hopeless, and that we should only look abroad for hope, because, among other things, there are no racial divides outside the USA.

Doug



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