[lbo-talk] Re: Re: Identity vs. class politics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 27 18:54:32 PST 2007


On Jan 27, 2007, at 9:39 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:


> At 09:07 PM 1/27/2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> On Jan 27, 2007, at 7:42 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
>>
>>> anti-racist mass movements
>>
>> But, as Carrol Cox has told us, those are still white supremacist.
>> Perhaps he can explain how.
>>
>> Doug
>
> It depends on what people mean, but if they're just "including"
> people of color then, yeah, it's white supremacist.

But that's not what "anti-racist" means. There have been moments in U.S. history where radical movements explicitly talked about and tried to fight the role of race. The much-maligned CPUSA tried to do that, even if they didn't have the benefit of studying under Tim Wise.

Doug



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