Re: [Marxism] What The Left Must Fight Against | Current Affairs

[Mark Lause via Marxism]

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 There's a number of good essays over the last few years available online.
To frame the issue, see
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/14/trump-populism-history-216320

.The standard Marxist view of the Populists is Anna Rochester's little
book, available online at
https://archive.org/details/ThePopulistMovementInTheUnitedStates

The introduction to the short version of Lawrence Goodwyn's groundbreaking
_Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America_
https://ratical.org/corporations/PMSHAGAintro.html
Goodwyn's work spawned a series of solid reviews of the subject.

My two cents . . . in a nutshell . . . .

If you're talking about Populism after 1896, you're basically talking about
the Democratic party under the rubric of populism.   The People's party,
coaxed by the silver lobby, aligned itself behind the Democratic ticket
headed by William Jennings Bryan.  While dealing with a mass movement
always allows for cherry picking, but the erosion of the Populist potential
in terms of race--epitomized in the repeated call for the free and fair
ballot in the South--came to end with a distinctive Populism
generally--throttled by the Democratic Party.

Although a rump "middle-of-the-road" group around Tom Watson persisted into
the twentieth century, these mostly represented Southerners unwilling to
accept assimilation into the Democrats.  These took longer to break down
and assimilate into the Democratic Party and their drift towards an
acceptance of white supermacism reflected that drift into the arms of
Woodrow Wilson, etc.

The post WWII American intellectuals, being East Coast liberals, had
rationalized the secular jihad against Communism, and sanctified the
writing out of our past of socialism and radical labor also recast populism
as a movement of easily misled ignorant bumpkins from the middle of the
country and the South.  Too, these thoroughly Establishment authors of
McCarthyism also preferred to attribute McCarthyism to those same kind of
people. In another sense, of course, this anti-democratic, elitist
perspective also seemed to offer a microcosm of how they saw the Cold War
world.

It obviously also echoes in the dishonest and idiotic cant of the media and
punditry about the 2016 election, essentially a cross-town intramural New
York game between Trump and Clinton.  In the aftermath, the people who got
it all wrong as pundits and totally misjudged the state of the country
among the Democratic strategists decided that Trump won because of all the
out of touch parochial dummies in the center of the country.  This, despite
the statistics showing the average Trump voter to be marginally better off
than the Clinton voters, etc.  This despite the demographic studies
indicating that most of those alleged Trump voters sat on their hands.

Cheers,
Mark L.
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Re: [Marxism] What The Left Must Fight Against | Current Affairs

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Depends which populism we're talking about --- there were populists even in
the South who supported and interracial class alliance --- Even Tom WAatson
who later became a vicious racist started out totally different ---

I was referring to post 1896 southern populists who opted (with a few
exceptions -- see 1899 in Wilminston) for disenfranchisement --

That's the crucial story told (I still believe it's accurate even if old)
in THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW by Woodward ---

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:56 AM Mark Lause  wrote:

> This grissly misrepresents Populism, out of which the Socialist party
> emerged.
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Re: [Marxism] What The Left Must Fight Against | Current Affairs

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This grissly misrepresents Populism, out of which the Socialist party
emerged.

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 9:41 AM Michael Meeropol via Marxism <
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> Thank you Louis -- I was totally convinced by the article -- I had no idea
> Carlson was such a DANGEROUS mix of accurate economic analysis and
> dangerous racism .
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> In the 1890s, the Populist Party for a brief moment made an effort to
> create a black and white alliance -- but after the 1896 elections, decided
> that the top dogs in the South had been able to "corral" the black vote ---
> so the Populists opted for disenfranchisement in the hope that they (the
> Populists) would command the white majority based on self-interest --
>
> But in fact from that point on, the only way to get elected in the South
> was to sound the alarm about black folks (using different language of
> course).
>
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> The last gasp of the black-white alliance (which  included Populists) was
> the terorist insurrection that drove out the elected government of
> Wilminston, North Carolina in 1899 --- The novel THE MARROW OF TRADITION by
> Chesnut (sp?) is a pretty good fictionalization of some of what was going
> on there ... but I bet there are some good historical treatments as well.
>
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Re: [Marxism] What The Left Must Fight Against | Current Affairs

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Thank you Louis -- I was totally convinced by the article -- I had no idea
Carlson was such a DANGEROUS mix of accurate economic analysis and
dangerous racism .

In the 1890s, the Populist Party for a brief moment made an effort to
create a black and white alliance -- but after the 1896 elections, decided
that the top dogs in the South had been able to "corral" the black vote ---
so the Populists opted for disenfranchisement in the hope that they (the
Populists) would command the white majority based on self-interest --

But in fact from that point on, the only way to get elected in the South
was to sound the alarm about black folks (using different language of
course).


The last gasp of the black-white alliance (which  included Populists) was
the terorist insurrection that drove out the elected government of
Wilminston, North Carolina in 1899 --- The novel THE MARROW OF TRADITION by
Chesnut (sp?) is a pretty good fictionalization of some of what was going
on there ... but I bet there are some good historical treatments as well.



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[Marxism] What The Left Must Fight Against | Current Affairs

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Tucker Carlson’s new book is dangerous because it puts accurate economic 
observations alongside outright white nationalism…


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