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"The US Supreme Court upheld Jim Crow in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision in 1896, declaring that legislation is powerless to eradicate 'racial instincts' and establishing the principle of 'separate but equal.'"
Racial instincts implies racism is just innate and biological in nature.
— Aug 29, 2026 10:10AM
Racial instincts implies racism is just innate and biological in nature.
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"Nationalism, which Garvey diverted under the slogan of Back to Africa, was an authentic trend, likely to flare up again in periods of crisis and stress. Such a movement might again fall under the leadership of utopian visionaries who would seek to divert it from the struggle against the main enemy, U.S. imperialism, and on to a reactionary separatist path"
(pg 230)
— Sep 28, 2026 07:14AM
(pg 230)
Angel Martinez
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Pretty neat Harry Haywood met all these high ranking Bolsheviks during his time in the USSR. Surprised he even had an encounter with Stalin!
I also appreciate he goes in depth with the incorrectness of Trotsky's position during the 1920s and in detail with the factional struggles that were happening within the CPUSA then too.
— Sep 24, 2026 12:11PM
I also appreciate he goes in depth with the incorrectness of Trotsky's position during the 1920s and in detail with the factional struggles that were happening within the CPUSA then too.
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Universities of the Peoples of the East: "Proletarian in content, national in form"
— Sep 21, 2026 02:12PM
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Interesting hearing about the relationships among comrades of the CPUSA at this time and how the impacted the Fourth Convention of the CPUSA
— Sep 17, 2026 10:49AM
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Seems Harry Haywood is also quite fond of State and Revolution by Lenin
— Sep 10, 2026 01:38PM
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"Secret Information Concerning Black American Troops" is a crazy document I am learning about for the first time here.
— Sep 03, 2026 12:04PM
Of course we, in all such examples, know what they’re really saying. That the current economic breakdown works out well for them and that its in their material interests to uphold current privileges by any means or argument.