Re: [Marxism] Behind the "Aussies" race riot

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

'Shopkeepers'? You're confusing me with Trotsky, and Australia with Weimar
Germany. In fact, Australia is more like Nazi Germany before the war, where
German workers were encouraged to, and did, look down on the cheaper lives,
labor and wares of conscripted Eastern European slave labourers.

There have been big protests in Britain and America against war and racism.
They have not yet fundamentally altered the conditions or consciousness of
the 'white working class'. They did not save the life of Anthony Walker in
Liverpool, and they have not stopped pampered racist yobs from rampaging
against black people on Sydney beaches. Wake up; imperialism and racism are
the central and most affective forces in determining the overall political
dynamics of western capitalism. To appeal to 'class consciousness' under
such circumstances is, I think, premature and idealistic.



TONY HARTIN WROTE:

So what do you want to do Calvin - write off the white working class?
What do you then make of the 250,000 that marched in Sydney for Aboriginal
rights in 2000,
or the million that marched against the Iraq war in 2003 or the strikes and
marches on Nov 15?
How else can you describe the biggest working class protest in australian
history mid November
and then a pogrom mid December except by mixed consciousness? Unless of
course they were all
drunk white shopkeepers in Cronulla and the strikes were to keep the
lebanese coolies below the minimum wage

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