Dear Comrades -- I highly recommend a book that was published this year: UNDEMOCRATIC: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections --- by David Daley ---
It describes how beginning with the POWELL MEMO of 1971 and the creation of the FEDERLIST SOCIETY -- and gaining speed when John Roberts joined the Justice Department and attemtped to get the REagan Administration in 1982 to begin the process of eviscerating the Voting Rights Act --- those who wanted to roll back voting rights (Jim Crow 2.0) succeeded finally with Shelby County -- It ain't Donald Trump --- he just was the instrument in putting the six vote supermajority on the Court --- Daley concludes ([. 380) "Whether gutting the Voting Rights Act, enstringing gerrymanders that enhanced the power of republicans, or allowing a tsunami of corporate money to drown our elections. This court's project has been the determined dismantling of democracy and the birth of a nation where your rights and your access to the ballot box depend on where you live and , once more, the color of your skin. Our most antidemocratic institution seems determined on creating and enforcing anti democratic results..." (and that doesn't even include the end of ROE which is an important gift to the Christian Nationalist set of supporters of the extreme right wing in this country) I was convinced by Daley's research. On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM John Reimann via groups.io <1999wildcat= [email protected]> wrote: > Article by Clay Claiborne: > 'The principal contradiction in the US 2024 election is its particular > derivative of the principal contradiction in the US since its founding and > embodied in its Constitution, namely the contradiction between bourgeois > democracy and the use of African slave labor as its engine of primitive > accumulation. A great civil war was waged to end this period of capitalist > accumulation, and a victory for bourgeois democracy was won in the balance. > The struggle to complete that work was greatly stifled when black > reconstruction was overthrown ~1876. Since then, progress on this front has > been slow and halting, but progress has been made nonetheless, and it has > brought in its wake, progress on a number of other fronts that seek to > fulfill the promise of bourgeois democracy. > > > 'Now, a powerful reactionary movement, a resurgence of white supremacy, > has risen under the leadership of Donald Trump. Its aim is to re-establish > white supremacy to its position of unchallenged dominance (“Make America > Great Again”). ' > read full article here: > https://oaklandsocialist.com/2024/08/18/elections-2024-and-white-supremacy-in-the-united-states/ > > - > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31690): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31690 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107956931/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
