Biblioteca / 2000-2009
Richard Fraser – Tom Boot. Revolutionary Integration. A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation.
Seattle: Red Letter Press, 2004.
222 páginas.
Publicado por primera vez como dos obras separadas. Integración revolucionaria: la dialéctica de la liberación negra se publicó como boletín interno del Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores en 1963. Una edición revisada apareció en dos entregas del periódico Freedom Socialist, vol. 3, núms. 3 y 4 (otoño e invierno de 1977). Integración revolucionaria: ayer y hoy fue adoptado por el Partido Socialista de la Libertad en 1982 y se publicó en el Freedom Socialist, vol. 8, nº 2 (primavera de 1983).
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2004 EDITION by Guerry Hoddersen
1 – Dialectics of Black Liberation
PREFACE
THE COMING SOUTHERN REVOLUTION
The southern police state
The role of the government in the South
Federal troops to the South
The southern labor party
The strategic power of northern labor
THE NORTH: PROLONGED CRISIS OF LEADERSHIP AND QUEST FOR A PROGRAM
The reformist leadership
The nationalist alternative to reformism
Racial segregation: A unique oppression
The race question and the National Question
Black separatism
The Black nationalism of white radicals
Separatism and the freedom struggle
THE BLACK MOVEMENT
The impact of Black culture on American society
A vanguard of the class struggle
Blacks and independent politics
THE REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST PARTY IN THE BLACK STRUGGLE
The record
The source
The future
2 – Revolutionary Integration: Yesterday and Today
OVERVIEW
Premises
The present conjuncture
THE COMINTERN ADDRESSES THE BLACK QUESTION
A special question
The Second Congress, 1920
The Fourth Congress, 1922
LENIN ON THE NATIONAL/COLONIAL QUESTION
STALIN’S BLACK BELT DICTUM
DEBATE IN THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
The Trotsky-Swabeck discussion, 1933
The Trotsky-Johnson discussion, 1939
The 1939 resolution
SWP campaigns for equality
The 1948 resolution
EMERGENCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY INTEGRATION POSITION
1957: A blessing on Rev. King
Showdown at the 1963 convention
SWP: The aftermath
REVOLUTIONARY INTEGRATION IN THE TURBULENT 1960s
The Black reformists
The Black radicals
Impact of Blacks on labor
Twilight
THE 1970s: CULTURAL NATIONALISM AND BLACK MACHO
REBIRTH AND RETREAT OF BLACK FEMINISM
The isolation of Black feminists
Socialist feminism
Black lesbians and gay men
The road ahead
THE 1980S: THE BLACK MOVEMENT IN THE REAGAN ERA
Misery and terror for the Black community
The Black struggle and the Left
Striking a blow for global freedom
Black revolt and Permanent Revolution
WHAT MUST BE DONE
Our general course
Emphasize the leadership role of Black women and Black lesbians and gays
United front and multi-issue work
Organize for a labor party
Slogans for the struggle
AFTERWORD