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On 9/19/17 12:11 PM, Jeffrey Masko via Marxism wrote:
In case folx don't know, there are significant numbers of vets supporting
so-called antifa, including American pit vipers, th 3%, and most
explicitly, redneck revolt.
So what will redneck revolt do about mountaintop removal in West
Virginia and Kentucky? Shoot the men operating heavy equipment? What
about the opioid crisis? Shoot the drug dealers like Mexican militias
did a decade ago? That hardly made a dent, plus whenever there's a
demand, a supply will emerge. That's how capitalism works, after all.
Here's something I wrote on FB that relates to this:
Jesus fucking christ. I am getting as many posts of that guy wearing a
swastika getting punched out as I got the day after Richard Spencer got
punched. I don't mind people sharing this utterly irrelevant video as
long as they understand a couple of things:
1. The number one problem in the USA today is the blind forces of
capitalism that condemns people to unemployment, homelessness, hunger,
sickness, police brutality, ecological ruin, war, alienation and
loneliness. Some deranged individual walking around with a swastika is
not the same thing as the Golden Dawn or the National Front. When a
fascist movement develops a mass base in the USA, it will not be led by
someone walking around in a swastika. It will more likely be the stars
and stripes borne aloft when hundreds of racists pour into a Muslim
neighborhood in Queens to break windows and beat people up.
2. If and when a genuine fascist movement develops in the USA, it will
require a mass movement to oppose it. It will also require an
intelligent strategy designed to get results. If punching Nazis was the
key to preserving democracy and making advances against corporate power,
Hitler never would have come to power. We need a united left that is
democratic and that can relate to people on their level of
consciousness. To place yourself in the position of acting over their
heads is wrong. There is Leninist arrogance and there is anarchist
arrogance. Nobody gave groups like the SWP that I used to belong to the
right to make decisions with little regard for what the mass movement
thinks and the same thing applies to people dressed in black and wearing
hobnail boots. Enough of the bullshit already.
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