Re: Identity vs. class politics
On Jan 27, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 1/27/07, Doug Henwood dhenwood@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