"You [Oaklandsocialist] dealt with some of the major problems with Hawkins’ comparison of Von Hindenburg vs. Hitler in 1932 Germany. Now, I would like to say a bit about his attempts to negate the differences between Goldwater and LBJ in 1964.
"The Summer of ’64 was when I first started paying attention to politics, both electoral and more generally. I was 15 and the DNC was in my hometown, Atlantic City, NJ. It was the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and I had gone to the March on Washington the August before. It was the DNC of Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The month before LBJ had just signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Vietnam War was not up in ’64, not the way it was in ’68. It was all about white supremacy in America. But Hawkins ignores this key component of the history of the times and focuses on the war so as to zero out the very real differences between a Goldwater campaign furthering the grip of white supremacy on the GOP and LBJ and a Democratic Party willing to make some concessions to the growing civil rights movement...." for more, see: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2024/07/24/dont-support-jill-stein-clay-claiborne-comments/ -- *“Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” *Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31289): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31289 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107522201/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
