[Marxism] Trumka on race and the elections

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:48:49 -0400
>From: "Mark Lause" <markalause at gmail.com>
>
>So AFL-CIO officialdom is saying it's racist to vote against Obama,
>and the shards of what was the CP agrees?
>
>ML

For a white, give-us-back-our-share-of-the-spoils-of-empire, AmeriKKKan worker, the most usual reason for not supporting Obama probably IS racism, although some such white workers might vote for Nader, or just not vote, because they (rightly) don't expect the Democrats to give them their share of the loot.

On the other hand, if Obama were to do everything for U.S. workers that his most ardent labor supporters hope he would while at the same time promising to increase the size of the U.S. military, send more troops to Afghanistan, support Israel and threaten to bomb Iran, any "socialist" supporting him would objectively be a national socialist, in the manner of Israel's "socialist" Zionists and, with stylistic differences, the Strasserite wing of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

 - Aaron