[Marxism] Stan Goff, Bill Fletcher and the 2-party system

[Louis Proyect]

DCQ:
>Likewise, the older I get, the more I believe that the inability of 
>white Americans to seriously come to grips with this reality is a 
>key ingredient in American political life. In the absence of a 
>genuine reckoning, white Americans instead either a) ignore it and 
>don't think about it; b) tend to rationalize it as accidental or 
>unintentional; or c) excuse it by counterposing the genocide to 
>positive things like the spread of democracy, equality before the 
>law, etc. All three are a political reality in America on the ground 
>in many situations, including the war in Iraq.

You have to remember that some of this is attributable to the 
whitewashing of American history that CP intellectuals of the 1940s 
were involved with as part of the Popular Front turn. When Browder 
announced that Communism was 20th century Americanism, they had to 
establish a kind of "revolutionary continuity" with a bunch of rather 
nasty people. The CP had something called the Jefferson School in 
NYC. I myself would as soon name something the Hitler school or the 
Mussolini school.


"If we are to wage a campaign against these Indians the end proposed 
should be their extermination, or their removal beyond the lakes of 
the Illinois River. The same world would scarcely do for them and us."

--Written by Thomas Jefferson when he was governor of Virginia (1780)

"We have cut off all possibility of intercourse and of mutual aid, 
and may pursue at our leisure whatever plan we find necessary to 
secure ourselves against the future effects of their savage and 
ruthless warfare. The confirmed brutalization, if not the 
extermination of this race in our America, is therefore to form an 
additional chapter in the English history of the same colored man in 
Asia, and of the brethren of their own color in Ireland, and wherever 
else Anglo-mercantile cupidity can find a two-penny interest in 
deluging the earth with human blood."

--Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1813. ME 14:21