In reply to Charlie: Of course we have to link up the issue of oppression or bigotry or whatever we call it to the class struggle. But to simply answer with the class struggle is a reversion to the mistake Eugene Debs made. He said, “Properly speaking, there is no Negro question outside of the labor question—the working class struggle. Our position as Socialists and as a party is perfectly plain. We have simply to say: ‘The class struggle is colorless.’ The capitalists, white, black and other shades, are on one side and the workers, white, black and all other colors, on the other side…. We have nothing special to offer the Negro, and we cannot make separate appeals to all the races.” In fact that was the position of the Communist Party until Lenin intervened. It was understandable, although no less mistaken, for Debs to make that mistake back in the 1920s. It is unforgivable - an outright betrayal - for a union leader to do the same 100 years later.
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