[Marxism] Did Cannon have a "liquidationist" position on the Black question in the U.S.?

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

No. (that's the answer to the question in the subject line)
  I'm glad Joaquín enjoyed the Cannon article I pointed him toward this weekend 
when he first posed this question.
  He reads too much into Cannon's counterposition of the CP's 
"self-determination" slogan and their militant fight for equality in the 
1930's. By "self-determination" I think Cannon IS, contrary to Joaquín's 
statement, referring specifically to agitation around the Black Belt theory, 
and not to the general right of self-determination.
  Trotsky's discussions with the US comrades, which Joaquín correctly hails, 
were first printed in the magazine Fourth International in 1948:
  http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/fi/index2.htm
  Why would an opponent of self-determination make sure that they were printed 
-- without rebuttal -- in his organization's theoretical journal?

  Finally on the question of support for self-determination, Solidarity, and 
ideological lines crossing party lines: My first few years in Solidarity I was 
engaged in repeated and heated debates on this question, and upheld the 
self-determination line -- including, based on soundings made in NY's Black 
political milieu, the possibility that we had not heard the last of the Black 
Belt question. In this I was strongly opposed by those who held to the 
Schachtmanite (and post-1933 CP) position of "Black and White, Unite and 
Fight." I believe eventually some in groups like Solidarity and other centrist 
formations who have a revolutionary position on self-determination will also 
come to a revolutionary position on the question of the party itself and on 
intervention in the class struggle -- at which point they'll have to look to 
groups like Socialist Action.


                
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