The Communist Party USA And African-Americans
The Communist Party USA, historically and currently committed to complete racial equality in the United States, played a significant role in defending the rights of African-Americans during its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, but later lost support.
Read more about The Communist Party USA And African-Americans: Early Years (1919 – 1928), The Third Period and National Self-determination (1928 – 1935), Organizing in The North (1928 – 1935), The Scottsboro Boys and The ILD, The Popular Front (1935 – 1939), Organizing Black Workers, Communists and Black Culture, World War II (1939 – 1945), The Post World War II Era, The New Left and Afterwards
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“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a “dictator” substitutes himself for the central committee.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
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