Multi-Racial Organization
January 24, 2007The same people who run the STO Web Archive also maintain a great blog called The Democracy and Hip-Hop Project. As a casual fan of hip-hop, I am sometimes lost by the references, and I sometimes disagree with the perspectives offered, but I am always challenged by the content of the blog, which is nice. It forces me to rethink most of my assumptions about culture and revolution. People should check it out.
A recent piece posted to the blog is a critique of Noel Ignatiev’s pamphlet “Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History,” written by Lauren Ray, some of whose past writings can be found online at the Palestine Solidarity Review. Ray criticizes the piece from an interesting perspective, challenging the implicit notion that black struggles – and even black people – are necessarily revolutionary. I don’t agree with everything she has to say, and I think she’s right to believe that the piece – first written as an internal STO document in 1980 – would have been more nuanced had been written a decade later. Still, she raises a very interesting question regarding STO’s organizational character. (more…)
