Tag: Money and Politics

Voters then, too, were faced with the choice of two corporate-backed candidates promoting regressive economic policies In 1924, at least, there was a genuinely progressive third candidate, Robert La Follette The 1924 U.S. election was not much better than 2024’s. In both cases, the Republican and Democratic Party candidates had deep...
The late El Haj Malik el-Shabazz, Minister Malcolm X, had always advised us about the ideological outlook of the “field Negro” in contradistinction to that of the “house Negro.” The “field Negro” identified with and expressed solidarity with his co-slaves; he was progressive, militant and unapologetically wanted to destroy the...