[lbo-talk] The guy who 'blocked' John Lewis

[Carrol Cox]

Let's factor this in in _any_ debate over "race" and the left. (1) 
Unless a substantial number of Blacks are in any left movement, there is 
no left movement. (2) Blacks in massive numbers are not going to join a 
left movement that does not put the fight against racial injustice very 
near the center of its program. (3) And regardless of what a left 
movement's politics on "race" are, Blacks in the requisite numbers are 
going to join only through a black organization (or organizations) 
representing Black intgerests BUT also regardingthemselves as an 
integral part of the total left.

Left thinking that does not take these facts into consideration is not 
left thinking.

Carrol