Re: [A-List] African American Marxists

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(Subject: Re: American history: internal logic of Cotton Economy From:
Waistline2@xxxxxxx Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 12:33:59 EST)

full article at: http://kat.gr/Kat/History/Txt/Ec/BlackTechR.htm

>I recommend that everyone interested in US history read it.

All the best, Anthony<


The above comment comes from Marxline but it reveals a question asked
concerning why African American Marxists and plain old progressive peoples have in
history avoided "Trotskyism." The above article gives insight into the vast
differences in conception of American history. Various ideological groups calls
this "nationalist discourse" and consequently have in the main, militantly
placed themselves on the side line of the social movement in America.

Imposing the national and colonial question on the communist in America -
1928, gave the question urgency and demanded action - engagement, as opposed to
ideological squabble. To this very day the militants and Marxists avoid the
ideological groups because their urgency lies elsewhere - in condemnation of
everyone's history.

Melvin P.