Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 09:26:15 +0000
From: Daniel Haines <daniel-AT-tw2.com>
Subject: Re: class solidarity


unleesh,

"There are large indications that there was
> class solidarity amongst European lower class, African slaves, and Native
> Americans in the early part of American history"

could you please explain to me what exactly you mean by calling these
populations "classes" and what these large indications of "class
solidarity" are?  to call Native americans or africans a "class" seems a
bit bizarre to me, if not a massive distortion of historical
perspective.  they aren't just another manifestation of some bullshit
marxist universal history, you know.

dan h.99

Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/5/99 12:57:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> pyrew-AT-csv.warwick.ac.uk writes:
> 
> << Are you seriously trying to tell me that all racism is
>  produced top-down from the State?  >>
> 
> If by "the State", you accurately mean the entirely linked network of
> hierarchical power including the media, the church, the government, and the
> workplace, then I would say that belief is generally tilted in racist
> directions, yes, by the State. There are large indications that there was
> class solidarity amongst European lower class, African slaves, and Native
> Americans in the early part of American history. The threat that a united
> front posed to the ruling class necessitated the invention of a divisive
> ideology, and thus differences were played upon in divisive ways.
> 
> In any situation of differences coming together, there will be clashes and
> misunderstandings as well as harmonies and joys. Whether this becomes divisive
> is to a large degree dependent on how those clashes and misunderstandings are
> construed. By encouraging certain pathways of thought over others in relation
> to such clashes, and by routing the emotional plague that exists in repressed
> societies towards such pathways, all sorts of divisive approaches to
> difference can be encouraged.
> 
> (un)leash

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