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[kls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Hinrich Kuhls)]

>This message is addressed to the American left.  (By American I
>[i.e. Ralph Dumain]
>mean the USA, just in case the p.c. crowd doesn't have enough
>trivia to whine about already.)  There is no reason to drag
>foreigners into our filthy mess.  After all, they tend to their
>own problems while we waste our time worrying over Bosnia or Cuba.
[First paragraph of the thread  MILLION MORON MARCH]

Comrades,

I have just been watching the main news on the main channel of german TV,
and this dubious march and the racial problems of the USA got more coverage
than the party conference of the government leading conservative party CDU
and its chancellor Kohl.

And more important:  The message of both the Washington correspondent and
the studio commentator was crystal-clear: Farrakhan is a racist... and
Powell the good fellow.

I live in Duesseldorf, which is not far away from the town of Solingen. In
Solingen - two years ago - four young people with connections to neofascist
groups murdered five turkish girls and young women by burning their house.
[Those four have been sentenced to jail just the other day.] There was a big
demonstration of nearly 100.000 people against racial hatred - and what was
the biggest problem we were confronted with? This demonstration was
disturbed by the Grey Wolfs, a fundamental-religious, neo-fascist turkish
organization. [Btw, over here in Germany there are many towns where up to 20
percent of the inhabitants are foreigners, mainly of turkish or yugoslavian
origins.]

Yes, I know, the situation in Washington is more desperate than in
Duesseldorf, where - as it's rumoured - there are more Andy Warhol's
originals in the homes of the upper class than in New York - but we have to
face the same problem: the awakening and growing up of racism and its
religious shape in the times of deepening of the crisis of capitalistic
societies.

"The religious reflex of the real world can, in any case, only then finally
vanish, when the practical relations of every-day life offer to man none but
perfectly intelligible and reasonable relations with regard to his fellowmen
and to Nature. The life-process of society, which is based on the process of
material production, does not strip off its mystical veil until it is
treated as production by freely associated men, and is consciously regulated
by them in accordance with a settled plan. This, however, demands for
society a certain material ground-work or set of conditions of existence
which in their turn are the spontaneous product of a long and painful
process of development." (Marx, Capital, vol. I, Chapter I)

What to be done by the left? - Only if the Left will learn to play the whole
scale of the folklore of  every-day life, we shall be able to ancour our
political programme in the consciousness of the masses.

In solidarity to all over there in the USA who think [but only at this
moment] that the defeat by this dubious march could not be made up for.

Hinrich
























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