The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-10
Zone Single Cohesive Fear"

the South in a single political line?
| Because the fear of the Negro is
not the fear Of a race, it is the fear
Of CLASS. The secret Of it is that
THE EXPLOITED CLASSES OF MIS-
SISSIPPI CONSIST IN OVERWHEL-
MING PROPORTION OF NEGROES.
The vast majority Of the tenant
farmers and laborers on whose backs
Senator Pat Harrison's ruling class
| lives, is composed Of Negroes. They
are exploited as laborers and peasants.
But they can be held in political sub
| lection and directly applied terror
more conveniently as Negroes. The
coincidence, that the exploited class
is mostly black of face, enables the
ruling class of the South to obscure
its class oppression under the easy
cover of race oppression. I'm fact
the whites Of the same economic
classes are almost equally terrorized
and oppressed).
Contradictions
The rotting, purifying, impover-
ished and disconnected petty bour-
geoisie Of the Solid South has many
impules toward solidarity with the
similar class of the North as against
the more wealthy bourgeoisie. But it
dares not let go or disturb it's front
for the zone Single Cohesive Fear"
that it may lose it's hold on its serf
class which is mostly black of face.
The big bourgeoisie of the North
also at various times during the past
thirty years has been Inconvenience
by the stagnant cohesiveness of the
Solid South. Democratic and republi-
can politicians alike have made re-
peated gestures toward breaking up
the Solid South of the democratic
party. AS child in Texas in 1896 the
writer was astonished to see a local
bankers sons actually Haunting a
republican banner, considered an I'M
speakable offense) which meant that
the danger of the Bryan movement
capturing the government thru the
capure of the democratic party and
hereby using the political strength of
the South in a debtors drive against
the big bourgeoisie, was frightening
the Southern bourgeoisie. Since that
time republican politicians. Roosevelt,
Taft, Elihu Root, Harding and Cool
idge, have made overtures to the South
ern bourgeoisie by Offering to commit
the republican party to white suprem-
acy" in the Southern states. Today,
subsidized Negro newspapers continue
to faunt the slogan of Frederick
Douglass (of the Ciyal War period)
that "the Republican party is the
SlAp; All else is the Sea-" but Mr.. C.
Bascom Slemp strives to introduce the
republican party to the Southern rul-
ing class as the thing it is-another
party of white Supremacy"
means capitalist class supremacy over
the toiling masses whose faces are
! largely black. And it has already been
proven that the democratic and repub-
lican parties act ON a "gentleman's
agreement" by which they cooperate
in killing every gesture however ster-
ile) toward granting political rights
to Negroes.
History forces the question Of the
breaking up of the Solid South upon
the order Of the day. Yet neither the
republican party nor the democratic
party (both of the big bourgeoisie),
nor any party of the petty bourgeoise,
viii do 1t or can desire to do it at
the cost of extending citizenship rights
to the most exploited Of all classes
in America, the Negro toilers. Such
citizenship rights would not free the
Negro masses from exploitation, ter
ror and suppression. The breakup
Of semi-feudal restrictions would make
the exploitation more efficient and pro-
ductive, and put the terror and sup
preston on a more secure basis. But
the existing exploiting class has its
lines Of operation laid in feudal con-
ditions. and dares not face any change
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