How do we fight these demagogues? At the risk of being an old broken record, the way to combat this is through solidarity. As brother Fred Hampton states: “We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.”
However, much has changed since Hampton was assassinated by Chicago police. Gay rights, Gender equality, Black power, the Black movement, etc.- all noble causes which I endorse, but I'm an old school socialist that believes in the Marxist perspective of class struggle. I believe that's the road to liberation.
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"Racism and xenophobia are part of why so many ordinary workers were won over to Donald Trump, but that's far from the whole story."
Of course it's not the whole story, but IT'S A HUUGE CHUNK of it!
The white working class has always voted against its self-interest when it comes to America's electoral politics. They did so with Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump & Trump.
Any white politician who can assure the white working class AND THE WHITE POOR that 'at least they're not black' and can trick them into believing they are superior to Black folks and that we present a challenge to their social status, whatever that is, will win the white working class & white poor votes.
Even Dr King spoke on that white phenomenon.
I like Jared Abbott's writings - he's done a few things on Caribbean politics, but on this I think he's underplaying anti-blackness in American electoral politics.
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