The following text is a translation of sections from/Schematic Analysis
1932-1934,/the founding document of the original Haitian Communist Party
(1934-1936). The document was written by Jacques Roumain, a renowned
Haitian writer whose 1944 novel,/Masters of the Dew,/was translated into
English by Black U.S. communist poet Langston Hughes. The/Schematic
Analysis/attempts to answer the burning questions of Haitian politics in
the years immediately following the brutal US occupation of Haiti
(1915-1934) from the standpoint of revolutionary Marxism. The main
issues dealt with in the translated sections are the character of
Haitian nationalism and the relationship between color prejudice and
class struggle. The introduction reproduced here was not published with
the pamphlet and was instead found among Roumain’s manuscripts.
Regardless, it makes a bold and concise defense of the scientific
character of Marxist theory and is therefore worthwhile reading.
Excluded from the translation is the analysis of the/Manifesto/of the
Democratic Reaction, a petty-bourgeois political trend of the time. This
section dealt with issues of such specificity that it is unlikely to be
of interest to a non-specialist present-day reader.
https://cosmonaut.blog/2021/01/10/the-founding-of-the-haitian-communist-party/
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