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One boneheaded skinhead thought he could get a white supremacy rally going in Buffalo and was drowned out by people opposed to a message of hate.

The Buffalo Anti-Racism Coalition was the organizing force that opposed the few that showed up.

And Buffalo has a proud tradition of opposing hate groups, though a few do exist in the area. Because of the mass opposition, they keep to them selves and keep quiet.

And the organizer of the white supremacy rally had the nerve to have campaign literature for office – he wants to be a senator. Can we write him in for psychiatric evaluation instead?

We need to be aware of a few things:

1. The Republican Trump candidacy, which has shed all pretenses and “dog whistle politics” and code words, has boosted the bravery of white supremacy in this country. They are becoming more vocal and acting out even more than before.

2. The loss of manufacturing jobs to trade deals made by Democrats and Republicans has fueled the unemployment of the male population that white supremacists feed off of. “Back in he day” one could graduate from high school and go work for Chevy, Ford, Bethlehem Steel, and other manufacturers and make good money. Capitalists and capitalist crises killed those jobs and now the undereducated are being stuck with low paying, no benefit jobs. They need to see that capitalists like Trump and Clinton are the tools of the capitalist elites. Voting for either is slitting your own throat.

3. Their concerns about immigration are a result of US capitalist run foreign policy, which subverts democracy in other countries and places capitalist dictatorships in power. If people were able to democratically run their own countries and the USA let them, then they would not be running for fear of their lives or to make money to send home to their families.

We need to use the capitalist crisis to educate those around us who are susceptible to the lies of white supremacy about the truth of the situation.

We need to show those who are victims of the capitalist created and managed crisis that the only solution to their crisis is socialism – an economy run of, by, and for the people – not just the 1%.

If we fail to see and do this, then the next rally might be larger.

Mussolini and Hitler fascist groups both started small. They grew in a crisis.

Let's use this crisis to throw the light on the failures of capitalism and begin the road to revolution.