[Marxism] An exchange on racism. Clinton and Obama campaigns, and Black oppression

[Mark Lause]

Fred Feldman <ffeldman at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
>  Basically, Mark's comments mean that he basically has nothing to say about
>  this election, and I have to say I'm disappointed. I deliberately placed my
>  analysis in a broad political and historical framework in hopes of sparking
>  some discussion, but I failed -- too bad.
>
>  As for his attempt to dissolve white racism into some Evil generality called
>  "ethnic appeals" and "identity politics" is so primitively wrong as to defy
>  comment other than what I and others have done, said, and written over the
>  years.
>

Wtf?  I just love having someone ignore what I actually say and then
telling me what I'm really saying.

I've blathered on continually about the election at times, but
apparently I have nothing to say on the subject.  Fred asserts that
saying bourgeois politics are racist leaves us nothing to say about
the election is simply groundless.  It also seems to imply that the
only politics worth discussing are bourgeois politics.

He further wrote:
>
>  Also the attempt to prove that Obama's campaign is just as racist as
>  Clinton's because he repudiated Wright is, shall we say, just the teeniest
>  bit strained.
>

Of course, I never said it was "just as racist," but why respond?  He
doesn't seem to read anything I actually write on the subject
anyway....

He also wrote:
>
>  And what does Mark think about Wright's "identity politics"
>  and "ethnic appeals", by the way?
>

Yet another demonstration that Fred isn't in the least interested in
what I have to say on the subject...which is in the archives of this
list.

Does Rev. Wright really look the same to Fred as a presidential
candidate whose breaking all records as a fund-raiser?

ML