What about the big-time "anti-racist" liberals? They worked together with conservatives to turn the labor unions into organizations that white workers (and non-white workers too) came to view as agents of the capitalist class. Robert Reich, for example, was Labor Secretary during the truly heroic rank-and-file-led strikes at the E.A. Staley corn-milling company and the Caterpillar Company and the Bridgestone Company (rubber) in 1995. The strikes were sabotaged by the national union leaders and attacked by the companies' management. The workers received no help from the Labor Department, and Reich had the gall to pontificate that the negotiations (which resulted in defeat for the workers) could, as the NYT reported, "spur an incipient trend of labor-management collaboration, with both sides seeing something to gain from an employer's success." This is how Reich told the workers to collaborate with their class enemy as if they shared the same fundamental values and interests, the "national interest" Big Lie.
President Bill Clinton at this time spearheaded NAFTA, which was used to enable the capitalists to move the highest-paying (often union) jobs to Mexico or to threaten such a move in order to force the workers to accept cuts in pay and benefits. White workers (as well as non-white) experienced this as an attack on them by a president (Bill Clinton) who was hailed as "America's first black president."
The liberal wing of the ruling class deliberately created a vacuum devoid of any organizational leadership that white working-class people could view as "on their side." The intended result is what we're now seeing: increasing numbers of angry white working-class people responding favorably to the recruiting pitch of white supremacist organizations.
The way to undermine the ability of the leaders of white nationalist organizations to recruit new followers is to expose how the ruling class, in the name of anti-racism, has used manipulation (such as Affirmative Action) and lies (such as the "white privilege" Big Lie that says ordinary whites benefit from racial discrimination against non whites* and will therefore be worse off if the anti- racists prevail) to make working-class whites feel that they are under attack by people promoting the welfare of non-whites.
The very LAST thing we should do to stop new recruits from joining white nationalist organizations is to mistakenly believe that America's establishment liberal leaders share our horror at the growth of such organizations, and to mistakenly embrace the divide-and-rule schemes these leaders tell us are about "fighting racism." These "anti-racist" schemes are about driving working-class whites into the arms of the racist leaders of white nationalist organizations.
The way to fight racism is to assert and explain to everybody white and non-white alike that, contrary to the "white privilege" BS, racial discrimination against non-whites HARMS both ordinary non-white AND white people (as discussed also in my "True or False: An Injury to One is an Injury to All?"). This is the UNIFYING basis on which to fight against racially discriminatory policies, as we definitely need to do.
The ruling class, using its liberal wing, has worked very hard to prevent Americans from understanding that an injury to one is an injury to all. It's time we stopped them from succeeding in this Big Lie, and from doing the heavy lifting to help the white nationalist organizations recruit.
* Dear reader, if you don't understand that this is a Big Lie, then you really REALLY need to read "Is It a 'Privilege' Not to be Discriminated Against?" Really!
(Article changed on August 15, 2017 at 23:53)
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