Yes, think Andrew is right about the origins of the KKK --- they were aimed at overthrowing the Reconstruction governments --- and as I've mentioned before, the end of Reconstruction led to a period (roughly from 1877 to 1897) where the Democrats dominated the South and beginning in the 1880s, a resistance emerged within the Southern Farmers' Alliance which by 1890 had morphed into the Populist party --- which until 1896 posed a real threat to the racist regimes of the South because of the attempt to unify black and white farmers, tenants, etc. ---- (last gasp of this coalition, Wilmington, NC in 1898) --- After the election of 1896, the (white) Populists gave up on working with blacks and opted for disenfranchisement and Jim Crow --- so it's incorrect to see the KKK as the instrument that created Jim Crow --- the Klan was actually less of a factor after 1877 than it was beginning in the 1860s --- (again -- apologies for nit-picking). JIM CROW was the result of the Populist defeats in 1896 ....
I think (by contrast) the 1960s version of the Klan WAS (is?) a militarized arm of the white Southern resistance to what has been called rightly the "Second Reconstruction" courtesy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and more importantly the Voting Rights Act of 1965. --- it (and the racist voter suppresionists) NEVER GAVE UP --- and they have come back with a vengeance with the big push from the Supreme Court ---- The question for today is whether the KKK, Proud Boys, Bougaloo Boys, etc. can be the shock troops for a "fascist style" (and I don't mind using the term Bonapartist which may technically be a more appropriate analogy) transformation of the American polity or will the Biden ADministration (and the law enforcement establishment have enough strength, interest and support to suppress these folks and defeat that political movement On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 1:32 PM Andrew Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > I beg to differ with you Louis re: the Klan, it first formed (admittedly > in a nucleus iteration that had yet to be formalized in the formation that > it later became) to overthrow the Reconstruction governments and convert > the political economy to the sharecropping system in tandem with the Jim > Crow system. I thought *Free State of Jones* demonstrated that > brilliantly. > _._,_._,_ > ------------------------------ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5560): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5560 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79662733/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
