On Wednesday, D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for mayor of Detroit, participated in a forum held by charity coalition United Way in downtown Detroit. About 100 people attended, and the event was streamed live on video via the Internet. Collier was one of eleven candidates present at the forum, and though comments were necessarily brief—limited to two minutes per question—he was able to put forth a socialist program and sharply differentiate his politics from his Democratic Party opponents. ... The other candidates used their opening remarks to boast of their experience working in establishment politics, corporations, and non-profit organizations. All of them put forth plans for Detroit based on a combination of demolishing blighted buildings, encouraging entrepreneurship, and expanding police powers. All of their remarks were characterized by an over-arching parochialism. They presented Detroit’s problems as though these were local issues, isolated from the global economic crisis. Their supposed solutions were based on individuals “taking responsibility for their actions” and they sought to conceal the class divisions in society by through a thinly veiled racial appeal, pitting African Americans in Detroit against workers living in the suburbs. wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/12/dart-j12.html
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:33:21 +0000
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