Being one who almost always clicks on hyperlinks, and uses Anna's Archive, daily, here is a link to one of the articles cited by Eric Blanc (which was a link to only the 1st page), as a complete article pdf. When downloading, I find slow download #5 the best.
The Socialist Party and the Negro, 1901-20 Author(s): Sally M. Miller Source: The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul., 1971), pp. 220-229 https://annas-archive.org/ > SciDB > https://doi.org/10.2307/2716273 > https://annas-archive.org/scidb/10.2307/2716273/ https://b4mcx2ml.net/d3/x/1766516986/10000/g4/scimag/47700000/47752000/10.2307/2716273.pdf~/uBgPs91zLoXB1uBNOtU5HA/The%20Socialist%20Party%20and%20the%20Negro%2C%201901-20%20--%20Sally%20M_%20Miller%20--%20The%20Journal%20of%20Negro%20History%2C%20%233%2C%2056%2C%20pages%20220-229%2C%201971%20--%20The%20Association%20for%20the%20--%2010_2307%2F2716273%20--%209c2726f90be0214828f1b68f902b7ce7%20--%20Anna ’s%20Archive.pdf Eric linked to the Internet Archive's copy of, "Victor Berger and the promise of constructive socialism, 1910-1920," by Miller, Sally M., 1937- , but, that edition is only available as a very limited preview. Basically just the title page. Here it is via Anna's Archive <https://annas-archive.li/md5/c20cc5ae4187bad51da2c039ac558549>. James Weinstein, critiqued one of Eric's cited sources, "The American Socialist Movement, 1897 –1912," by Ira Kipnis, in an article in Studies on the Left, reprinted in, "For a new America : essays in history and politics from Studies on the left, 1959-1967," entitled,"Socialism's Hidden Heritage : Scholarship Reinforces Political Mythology. Another article by Weinstein , in that anthology, "Gompers and the New Liberalism," has much on Victor Berger. D/L <https://annas-archive.li/md5/fc60c595f2bfcc0b8881c0d917e7344b> a copy. Eric, a very thorough scholar-activist, did not cite this. By the author of Black awakening in capitalist America: an analytic history <https://annas-archive.li/md5/83ea4df738fc8a7b805fb7a86b3441a3> Reluctant reformers : racism and social reform movements in the United States <https://annas-archive.li/md5/1f9c7cf8e018ece1f4af556545084b4b> by Robert L. Allen, with the collaboration of Pamela P. Allen <https://annas-archive.li/search?q=by%20Robert%20L.%20Allen,%20with%20the%20collaboration%20of%20Pamela%20P.%20Allen> Howard University Press, Washington, District of Columbia, 1974 <https://annas-archive.li/search?q=Howard%20University%20Press> Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It focuses in particular on the abolitionists, the Populist Party, the Progressive reformers, and the women’s suffrage, labor, and socialist and communist movements.Despite their achievements, virtually all these predominantly white movements failed to oppose, capitulated to, or even advocated racism at critical junctures in their history, with their efforts undercut by their inability to build and sustain a mass movement of both Black and white Americans.Reluctant Reformers examines both the structural roots of racism in US radical movements and the impact of racist ideologies on the white-dominated core of each movement, how some whites resisted these pressures, and how Black people engaged with these movements. This edition includes a postscript describing the Black freedom movement of the 1960s and the central role it has played in the development of today’s radical social justice movements. English [en] · PDF · 19.2MB · 1974 · 📘 Book (non-fiction) · 🚀/lgli/lgrs/nexusstc/zlib · Save <https://annas-archive.li/search?q=reluctant+reformers#> · 8 · 1 On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM David Walters via groups.io <[email protected]> wrote: > Since we had this thread going earlier in the month, Eric Blanc recently > posted this fascinating article that focuses primarily on Victor Berger's > early 20th Century socialism combined with racism and how he evolved > *away* from racist position to being a champion of Black civil rights: > > https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/from-white-supremacy-to-anti-racism > > Abstract: > Did you know Victor Berger, sewer socialism's founder and former white > supremacist, voted *against* the 1924 Japanese exclusion Act in Congress > and hosted Black radical Hubert Harrison on a speaking tour of WI that same > year? > > Other unexpected things I learned through my recent research on Berger and > sewer socialism's anti-racist evolution after WWI: > > — Black people were the ethnic/racial group that by far *most* > consistently voted for the sewer socialists in Milwaukee. One local leader > estimated that about 90 percent of Black people in the city voted > Socialist. > > — Marx was, and remained, much more racist than I had previously thought > and Debs wrote some extremely racist things as late as 1904. Socialists > haven't grappled enough with that history. > > — Victor Berger and his comrades led a successful mass publicity campaign > to free from prison (and possibly much worse) a Black reverend, Edward > Thomas, who shot and killed a white man in Milwaukee in 1925. > > — Milwaukee's sewer socialist movement had some amazing Black socialist > leaders, like William Bryant (pictured below), who fought to integrate > Wisconsin trade unions in the 1920s. > > — The then-new research of Columbia anthropologist Franz Boas played an > important role in convincing Berger and others than "race science" was > completely bogus. > > —The Garveyite Universal Negro Improvement Association in Milwaukee not > only had leaders join the Socialists, but the chapter as a whole generally > campaigned for the Socialists. > > — Berger (even in his extremely racist period) was a consistent > anti-imperialist, unlike Marx. But by the 1920s Berger was explicitly > arguing against the idea that white or European "civilization" was superior > to other cultures. > > — I re-learned that historical research in primary sources is very fun but > also very time intensive. Hope you like the article below, spent a ton of > time working on it! > --ERIC BLANC > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39822): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39822 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116918009/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
