Saturday, September 12, 2015

For socialists CLASS is more fundamental than RACE

   The poor working class white people I am familiar with have no clue how their white skins gives them a significant advantage over homeless, jobless blacks also stuck in the " culture of poverty ".
If a poor white male walks into that Welfare Building , he is certainly not treated with any deference. Are poor whites treated with any deference while serving time in the ACI ? Do poor whites have a better chance at " justice " in the courts ?
Because they are not victims of RACISM , does that mean that poor white persons have no excuse for social " failure " or living below the poverty level ?
Capitalism treats ALL working class people as mere wage slaves. The capitalists play a cynical game of divide and conquer. No socialist can be indifferent to the special problems of RACE in America. But CLASS is fundamental.
The Black Muslim leader Malcolm X caught on to this in the last year of his life . He electrified white radicals of the New Left by making a connection between racism and capitalism and imperialism.
Said Malcolm X : " You show me a capitalist and I'll show you a blood sucker ".
" Socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders has been accused by the " Black Lives Matter " group of ignoring RACE. But like Malcolm X even the moderate " radical " Sanders sees racism as rooted in the capitalist system. Even Martin Luther King scorned the unjust American economic system.
    

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