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(1948) - The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in US - C.L.R James
In The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in U.S., C.L.R James addresses the issue of the tension between the independent struggle of Black Americans and their relationship with the broader labour and socialist movements in the U.S. They argue that the Black struggle for emancipation must be recognized as essential to the class struggle and the broader socialist movement. The text highlights the revolutionary potential of the Black community, particularly Black workers, and emphasizes the need for solidarity between the Black liberation movement and the working-class struggle to dismantle capitalist oppression.
...[T]here are all sorts of Negro groups and organizations...every single one of which is dominated by the idea that each organisation must in some manner or another contribute to the emancipation of the Negroes from capitalist humiliation and from capitalist oppression.