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Richard Fraser – Tom Boot. Revolutionary Integration. A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation.

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