2025-04-09

The connection between US Crapitalism and white supremacy.

Great speech. 

https://blackagendareport.com/speech-white-supremacy-us-history-theodore-w-allen-april-28-1973

A choice bit -

It is all right to fight for a greater share of jobs for Blacks, but can that be done when white workers are being laid off?                     

It is all right to organize a plant on the basis of a strong stand against job discrimination against Black workers, but when the organizers go after the white workers will they refuse to soft-pedal that issue?

It is all right to be for better housing and schools for Blacks but when the mortgage-ridden, speeded-up, moonlighting white worker is being talked to will the organizer ask him to stand out for an open community—property values be damned?

Unless we can answer yes to such critical questions which sooner or later must come down, then we are not really fighting racism, but once again taking the bourgeois road of "the Southern vote" and the "Southern strategy." In Shaw's words, "the direction of least resistance rather than line of greatest advantage." (“Man and Superman,” Act III)                   

Socialist revolution is not possible where the majority of the workers do not want it and workers who want white-skin privileges do not want socialism.

 

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