Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:54:18 -0400
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: Marxist Information for Militia Members


At 7:49 AM 3/1/96, Louis N Proyect wrote:

>Louis: My cousin Joel has been doing a 5 year stretch in the federal pen
>for growing marijuana for his own use at his upstate NY home. I sent in a
>Nation magazine sub for him, only because he is no radical and had been
>reading the neoliberal New Republic with some frustration. He loves the
>Nation and what's interesting is that as soon as he's done he passes it
>on to the black prisoners, who to a man support Louis Farrakhan. There's
>practically a waiting list to get his copy when he's done. What's true of
>these black prisoners could be true of militia members. They simply have
>not been presented with an alternative source of information and work
>with what they got, no matter how obscurantist and reactionary it may be.

It doesn't help that many "radicals" view the "militias" as agents of the
devil, and support the calls by liberals to send the FBI after them. Which
is fine with the ruling class; it loves to see divisions like that.

The reckless use of the word "militias" is revealing, since there are only
a few thousand of the real militia members. But the liberal elite sees all
white working class through that lens.

Now if those black prisoners and their brothers & sisters on the outside
were to get together with the disaffected white working class, then things
could get mighty interesting.

I just read something about COINTELPRO that said that the FBI didn't give a
damn about black nationalists, but when the black nationalists started
talking about cross-racial alliances, the G-persons went into high gear and
started inflitrating and destroying.

Doug

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