Re: [Marxism] Class, Party, and Organization

[Bob Hopson <bobhpsn@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> To what extent is the critique of the labor
> aristocracy and racism  
> within the white working class influenced by Maoism?
> I understand  
> Lenin's critique is rooted in an economic and
> political understanding  
> of imperialism and the international division of
> labor and power  
> between core and dependent countries, but inside the
> USA, the BPP in  
> the 60's seemed to take their understanding of the
> revolutionary  
> potential of the black lumpen elements from Mao. Is
> this a correct  
> assessment?
> 

While perhaps not strictly speaking a Maoist view, the
book "Settlers: the Mythology of the White
Proletariat" published by J. Sakai in the mid 1980s
takes a position very similar to that of Joachim
Bustelo's on this list that the white working class
was politically hopeless almost from its concept due
to the material privileges of the white settlers vis a
vis Natives, Africans, etc.   Sakai (who I believe is
Japanese-American) identifies very strongly with the
Black nationalist struggle and seems to have come out
of the New Communist movement which was broadly
speaking Maoist influenced.  The tiny Maoist sect MIM
bases most of their political stance on this book.





      
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