Race and RevolutionA riveting inquiry into black history and American racism published here for the first time, Race and Revolution is a work of radiant insight and bold logic. Astonishingly advanced for its time, the document was originally drafted in 1933 as Communism and the Negro and was by far the most comprehensive statement on race produced by the Left Opposition, the dissenting Communist tendency led by Leon Trotsky. Race and Revolution places the black struggle for freedom and equality at the heart of American history. Racial oppression, Shachtman argues, can be comprehended only within the totality of social and class relations. The document culminates in a devastating polemic against the Communist Party’s call for a Black Belt state in the American South. A clarifying introduction by Christopher Phelps explains the document’s historical genesis, compares it to the views of Trotsky and C. L. R. James, and evaluates it in light of subsequent theoretical and historical developments. |
Contents
List of Illustrations | vii |
Editorial Note | lxv |
COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO by Max Shachtman | 5 |
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advance African Americans agricultural alliance American Negro basis black Americans Black Belt Black Nationalism black workers bourgeois democratic revolution C. L. R. James capitalism capitalist chattel slavery Civil class struggle colonies color Communism Communist International Communist movement Communist Party constitute cotton cropper cultural decade demand democratic dictatorship economic emancipation equality exploitation freedom industrial inequality Jews Jim Crow labor aristocracy Left Opposition Lenin Leon Trotsky liberation lynching Marxist Max Shachtman militant million Negroes Negro masses Negro nation Negro petty bourgeoisie Negro population Negro problem Negro question Negro workers North northern bourgeoisie organize percent political poor whites production progressive proletariat race racism radical reactionary Reconstruction Period right of self-determination ruling class segregation self-determination separate Negro Shachtman's position sharecroppers slave slogan social southern Negro Soviet Stalinist standpoint Swabeck tenant territory Trotsky and James Trotsky's United W. E. B. Du Bois white proletarian white workers whole Workers Party working-class York
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