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...here are Ratliff's diagnoses and prescriptions, as compiled over the past year. They are printed not because they might be thought odd, but because they are spare statements of some fundamental truths. William E. McKibben...
...Klan does not simply have a "vision of the past" as McKibben states. It is an active organization of fascist terrorists who have a long history of terror and murder against Blacks, Jews, trade unionists and the left. Fascism is the most naked form of capitalist reaction. The alarming growth of the KKK is a product of the deteriorating economic condition of U.S. imperialism. Workers who are battling grinding inflation, plant closings and layoffs often perceive Blacks and non-white immigrant workers as a threat to the precious few jobs that are left and thus can more easily be taken...
...McKibben falsely labels the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) as "revolutionary socialists." In fact the RCP has had precious little to do with the fight against fascism and even objectively supported the Louise Day Hicks campaign in its efforts to "unite against Boston busing." Real communists like the Spartacist League/Spartacus Youth League offer the only alternative to imperialist decay and fascism. So when the KKK wanted to "celebrate" the Greensboro massacre in the labor/Black town of Detroit it was the SL and 500 predominantly Black workers who demonstrated and stopped the Klan. And when the Nazis threatened to celebrate Hitler...
...recent Crimson, William McKibben concluded a story on radical political groups by urging his readers to understand and purchase the propaganda of the Revolutionary Communist Party. According to his argument, the RCP, unlike the KKK, looks to the future, and thus is not demonstrably evil or even incorrect in its vision of the world. This line of reasoning is not only logically flawed, but also quite distressing in its naivete. One need only consider the historical sickness of the Klan to condemn its present actions and philosophy. In the same way, the RCP may be judged by the actions...
...McKibben fails to realize that all groups advocating hatred and violence are to be condemned, not only those which fail to couch their arguments in the language of altruism and sacrifice. Mark A. Sauter...