Re: [Marxism] Did Cannon have a "liquidationist" position on theBlackquestion in the U.S.?

[Marvin Gandall <marvgandall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne S. Rossi wrote:

> I am not a liquidationist or any sort of integrationist; I hold a line
> of complete and total self-determination for Blacks in the Leninist
> sense.  *But* the CP view on the Black national question was
> objectively premature in 1929.  The grounds on which you are condemning
> Cannon are essentially mechanical:  the Black nation existed and Black
> nationalism was appropriate in the '30s because that is what Leninists
> are supposed to do.
>
> One thing that's bothered me for a while is a line of Trotsky's in
> those discussions of Black nationalism:
>
> "I am not sure if the Negroes do not also in the Southern states speak
> their own Negro language."
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One of the strongest indicators of  national consciousness is the formation
of mass nationalist political parties as vehicles to realize national
aspirations, eg. in Quebec, the Basque country, Ireland, Zionism, etc. This
hasn't accompanied militant episodes in the history of the black freedom
struggle in the US, and I'm wondering how the parties to this discussion
account for it in their analyses.





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