Re: [Marxism] RE: African American Liberation and Social Revolution 3

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Part Three: African American Liberation and Social Revolution

The third element was the political antagonism between world imperialism and 
Soviet power. Without becoming lost in historical data, the First imperial 
World War fused the national question with the question of the liberation of 
colonies from imperial entrapment. The national factor â question, was 
reformulated as the national and colonial question. The affirmation of the 
October 
Revolution created a new political alignment with the proletariat attempting to 
establish its political hegemony over the toiling colonial masses in revolt 
against the power of capital. Here is the meaning of political antagonism based 
on 
property relations. 



The Cold War era was the context and environment in which the African 
American people completed their evolution as people. Soviet Power â Comrade 
Stalin, 
opened doors that would have remained shut. Every politically mature person in 
America understands this very well. At, any rate the leading thinkers amongst 
the African American masses â the intellectual corp.; have always understood 
why white chauvinism is linked with anti-communism in our history. Here is the 
reason very few African American Marxists and communists ever become 
Trotskyites. Not an ideological position as such but basic common sense 
describing an 
intractable social position and a basic understanding of political polarity or 
political antagonism. . 



The Soviets correctly used the social position of the African American people 
in their ideological struggle for the world middle strata or what was called 
the âThird World.â  Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson â all were to 
varying degrees forced by the state department to take steps in dismantling 
legal 
segregation. There was no metaphysical battle against segregation devoid of 
the material reality of Soviet power and Chinaâs reemergence as history. 
Chairman Maoâs declaration of support to the battle hardened black masses 
shall live 
forever. 

The radically intellectuals â bless their hearts, write history in their 
image. The Third element can be better understood when the political vacuum 
that 
was created by the CPUSA is grasped. Montgomery Alabama is not understood. 

The militant bravery, steadfastness and ingenuity of the black masses sparked 
a reawakening in revolutionary Marxism and excited what would become the 
student movement. The fluid class factors in turn were the basis for a peculiar 
development that has run its course. With the black masses in motion without 
the 
white sections of the working class, a section of the radical Anglo American 
students â gravitating towards Marxism, could not penetrate the 
organizational 
forms of the black masses. This concrete historical configuration meant white 
intellectual trying to lead the black masses, which is simply not possible.  
Here is the political basis for the sectarianism of the last period and not 
simply âwrong thinkingâ or âbad policy.â 

It is understood that the revolutionaries and communist amongst the Anglo 
American people have faced a difficult and complex situation. One cannot have a 
correct policy if the working class is not in motion. Stated another way: ones 
policy cannot transcend the activity of that section of the population in 
combat with the state. This is the meaning of line of March. Communists are not 
a 
religious sect. Our base ideology is victory to the workers in the current 
struggle. One of the âcurrentâ struggles exploded in Detroit. 



After the social explosion that was Detroit 1967 two distinct events began 
taking shape. First was the political separation of the black workers and their 
leading activist from the black bourgeoisie and a rupture within the black 
elite. This process first began emerging in Birmingham Alabama in 1963 â the 
historic steel center of the Southern region and then in Watts 1965. The second 
event was nothing less than the reformulation of American Marxism on the basis 
of the resurrection of the African American Question as a modern 
national-colonial question and not a matter of alleged racial antagonism.



During this period of what was dubbed âthe black worker insurgency,â Nelson 
Peery placed into the hands of these militants the Marxist conception of the 
national colonial question. An impressive section of youth â many between the 
age of 13 and 17 began studying Marxism as insurgents. The Leninist conception 
of not simply oppressed and exploited class but oppressing and oppressed 
people was confirmed in combat with the oppressing peoples. Here is the meaning 
of 
the national factor and not a definition of a nation. 

At no time did these black workers push forward alone, although a complex of 
organizational form of the movement, the objective logic of reforming the 
political system on the basis of bourgeois property and white chauvinism 
inhibited 
class assertion. 

No one in their right mind would dare refer to the African American people as 
a tribe! They are a people formed under the pressure of the whites. To look 
at a social process in its history, environment and internal connection and not 
understand it is intolerable to communists. 

The logic of their formation has baffled the various ideologists who began 
their political evolution within the vacuum created by the CPUSA. The African 
American people are not a race and the intellectual core of this historically 
evolved people simply does not care how the oppressing people define them. 
There 
exist historical documents produced by the black elite dating back to 1790s 
and Walkerâs Appeal. 



The children of Atzlan were in flux and formation before Europeans arrived on 
the shores of America. Their flux and reformation was based on immigration 
pattern and low level of development of the mode of production. These 
migrations 
were conditioned by the environment and the existing technological regime 
that compels a people to relocate. There is also the brutal local wars of 
assimilation humanity has waged to expand the gene pool. The âgirl next 
doorâ is a 
bourgeois concept. The logic of history has been to capture the âother 
girlâ â 
and men, the âoutsidersâ and expand the basis of the collective. 

The Indian people â tribes, or grouping of people who have not yet arrived at 
the point of the emergence of commodity exchange as the dominating factor in 
social life, began their formation and spiritual life apart from European 
intrusion. These tribes â generally speaking, retain elements of national 
character that set them apart from other peoples who know that are not them. 
This 
social phenomenon was characteristic of the various advanced national groups 
throughout the continent of Africa. 

In our history the Marxists did not describe the Indian peoples as nations 
and this is correct. Nations in our usage means modern nations embracing a new 
technological regime defining a stage of development of commodity production. A 
rising bourgeoisie and proletariat describe economic content and the 
relationship of people to property in the process of production. 

The theory behind the description of modern nations is not an instrument used 
to measure oppression and genocide. What is being measured is the state of 
development of the technological regime and class formations. The historic 
struggle of the Indian was not driven by an Indian proletariat and Indian 
bourgeoisie. Other factors describe their struggle and resistance. The struggle 
of the 
blacks was riveted to a class of slaves drawn into the whirl pool of commodity 
production. In the last instance this accounts for their present social 
position. 

The historic contempt of the Anglo-American people towards humanity is 
understood by everyone of earth. This contempt is the material result of a 
historically evolved status as the most imperial of all imperial peoples, 
rather than a 
biological disposition â in the main. I write as a former leader of the most 
advanced sector of the Anglo-American proletariat. In this respects, âIâm 
sorry for 2004 and I ainât gonna do it no more.â 



The radical petty bourgeoisie speaks of racism and other such nonsense that 
blunts and justifies contempt for humanity. The years 1879 and 1894 are not 
forgotten and their material results are only now being unraveled. .This is 
when 
English was made a perquisite to vote by the gringo politician and when the 
counterrevolution was peaking. I hold in contempt those Marxist that complaint 
about the abolition of the language presses â European languages, forced on 
the 
communist in America by the Comintern.  These âcomradesâ become ideological 
agents of the bourgeoisie in their âhistorical positionsâ and and aid the 
block to the unity of the proletariat. 

The African American Question is emotional because they were owned by a 
people. The people that owned them are passionate in their ownership rights and 
control of history. Ask the children of Atzlan the results of the Populist 
Movement and the legacy of the language press, before the Comintern rammed the 
Negro 
Question down the resisting throats of the American communists.  



I have overstepped my bound. The children of Atzlan are more than capable of 
speaking for themselves. Yet, this is our history that canât be swallowed or 
coughed up. Here is the real bone in the throat of our proletariat and not 
comrade Stalin. I can sleep at night because Stalin lived and was made 
manifest. 
Stalin and Soviet Power inflicted head blows to the body of bourgeois property. 
The bourgeoisie is no longer sane or rationale.

Melvin P. 

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