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JACK LONDON: Racist Progressive. ?The racist elements of Progressive ideology don?t prove that e?

By Glenn Reynolds

JACK LONDON: Racist Progressive. “The racist elements of Progressive ideology don?t prove that economic interventionism is racist by nature, or that the policies Progressives defended in large part on racist grounds can?t be justified in other ways. Still less do they prove that modern left-wingers are necessarily racist as well. But they do undercut claims that racism is primarily a product of the ‘right’ and that economic leftism and racial progress necessarily go together. Indeed, many of the early advocates of racial equality were mostly libertarian on economic issues, including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and civil rights lawyer Moorfield Storey, one of the founders of the NAACP.”

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