Stan writes:
The Republicans, who have taken power, have their
own contradictions to deal with... they are a coalition of factions, some
theocratic, some petit-bourgeois, some libertarian ideologues, some
corporate, and some fascist-like. Their popular appeal and their
electoral strategies, ever since Nixon's initiation of the southern
strategy, has been an appeal to and fueling of white resentment of perceived
loss of privilege at the hands of blacks. The centrality of racist ideology
gives the proto-fascist elements in the RP a special influence, partiularly
in the realm of policymaking.
Seth replies: No small part of Nixon's strategy to politically secure the
South was the Drug War. Its aim? To criminalize white youth and nonwhite
people generally. In other words, to bring the weight of the state against
those sectors of US society whose entrance into the streets during the Civil
Rights and Vietnam War protests threatened the political power of America's
ruling circles. The end of the "Golden Era" of US capitalism in 1973 also
spurred the US political establishment to break up national working class
solidarity of the 1960s around the color line. It remains, in my view, one
of, if not the, main contradiction between the current "facts on the ground"
and radical social change in the US. The failure of the Nader campaign to
address the role of the color line in US class society ensures that the
Green Party will remain a white political movement. Will it? That's up to
us.
Seth Sandronsky
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