>
>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
Recommend strongly that folks read a book titled "Drug Crazy" by Mike Gray,
for an excellent account of the so-called Drug War. Random House, 1998.
Very important to understand since this is now the cover for much US
foreign policy. esp in Western Hemisphere.
Stan
"I am not a Marxist."
-Karl Marx
"Mask no difficulties."
-Amilcar Cabral
"Am I to be cursed forever with becoming
somebody else on the way to myself?
-Audre Lorde
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