Runoff bound!

In the same way you can draw a straight line from the confederacy to the third reich,you can draw a line from someone organizing for free healthcare in Maine to some future freedom that will be won in Mississippi. Not to be cliche buts it’s always been just one war

“the south” doesn’t really have to be abandoned or defended. That’s mostly just cope or posturing. It needs to be liberated from the boot of capital. And anyone fighting to de-commodify survival anywhere is helping to do that. They are my brother and sister

I could write a lot more on how this stuff is intertwined, but I guess another way of putting it is there is a powerful machine that takes southern whites and strips them of their humanity, and the control panel to that machinery is mostly located north of the Mason Dixon.

And many of the same liberals disgusted with the horrors down here benefit financially from the environmental racism, prison labor, gentrification, etc that white supremacy provides. We aren’t separate regions as much as different organs of a body.

I do understand the frustration with how cruel and paranoid white southerners are as a whole. But the south also functions as an extraction colony for the capitalist class of the north.

Racism is a load bearing wall for capitalism. It provides the strict hierarchies required for exploitation, especially in times of primitive accumulation or crisis. It’s why the planter class & Nazis were never truly defeated and found their ways back into power through the American political system