Malcolm X, Black Separatists and the American Communist Party
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May 03, 2010
Following the Civil War, the Southern States were forced into a
period of Reconstruction, whereby black Americans, through their
right to vote, dominated the State Legislatures and political scene.
The minority whites, appalled at this revolutionary change in the
power structure, organized into "Night Riders" that would raid
"uppity" blacks and use lynchings, whippings and other forms of
intimidation to take back political control in the South.
The result was the formation of "Jim Crow" laws which enforced
separate physical facilities for blacks and whites. Also, "poll laws
and taxes" were used to disqualify large portions of black voters
during elections.
Martin Luther King sought to address these issues through a movement
to eliminate "separate facilities" for blacks and dismantling voting
barriers in the South. He drew upon the "non-violent: protests of
Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi as his model for ending discrimination.
Malcolm X, on the other hand, was an advocate of black separatism.
Drawing upon the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and the "Nation of
Islam", Malcolm sought to establish a separate political and physical
entity for Black Americans. A state within the state as it were. His
plan involved black Americans physically moving to a designated area
and then declaring their Independance as a new nation. Black
Separatism was not a new idea in American politics:
"Indeed, black separatism's specific goals were historically in flux
and varied from group to group. Martin Delany in the 19th century and
Marcus Garvey in the 1920s outspokenly called for African Americans
to return to Africa, by moving to Liberia. Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
looked to form separatist colonies in the American West. The Nation
of Islam calls for several independent black states on American soil.
More mainstream views within black separatism hold that black people
would be better served by schools and businesses exclusively for
black people, and by black local politicians and police." (source)
The American Communist Party, which also controlled many of the civil
rights movements that circled Martin Luther King, were also heavily
involved in the black separatist movement as early as 1918.
"The inspiration for what would become the African Black Brotherhood
began with the appearance of a monthly journal. Journalist Cyril
Briggs left the Amsterdam News to start the monthly magazine The
Crusader in 1918. The first issue, published by the Hamitic League of
the World, espoused African nationalist politics, but within a
Marxist and Afro-Marxist context. Editorials endorsed a separatist
African-American state, with government control of the means of
production. Briggs demanded African-American independence from the
United States, in conformance with the principles of President
Wilson's Fourteen Points proposal as applied to former African
colonies of European governments. The same issue of The Crusader
endorsed A. Philip Randolph's campaign for New York State Assembly on
the Socialist Party ticket. The Brotherhood viewed independence of
the black community in the United States as a prerequisite to
equality. Only with genuine political power, which included control
of the means of production, including the land, could African
Americans obtain genuine equality. Briggs proposed a "new solution":
"nothing more or less than independent, separate existence" was
called for "Government of the (Negro) people, for the (Negro)
people and by the (Negro) people." (source)
They were also advocating the same principals as the 1960s Communist
"Black Panther Party" during the same time period:
In response to these attacks, The Crusader advocated armed
self-defense. Politically, Briggs drew comparisons between government
attacks on white and black radicals. He identified capitalism as the
underlying cause of oppression of poor people of all races. While
endorsing a Marxist analysis, The Crusader advocated a separate
organization of African-Americans to defend against racist attacks in
the United States, and likened this to Africans' combating colonialism abroad.
In September 1919, The Crusader announced the formation of the
African Blood Brotherhood, to serve as a self-defense organization
for Blacks threatened by race riots and lynchings. The ABB also
organized inside the UNIA-ACL and advocated a policy of critical
support for Marcus Garvey. ABB leaders Briggs and Claude McKay
participated in the UNIA's 1920 and 1921 international conferences in
New York. At the second conference, McKay arranged for Rose Pastor
Stokes, a white leader of the Communist Party, to address the assembly. (ibid)
These early Black Separatists were merged with the American Communist Party:
As the Communist Party developed, it regularized its structure along
the lines called for by the Communist International (Comintern).
Semi-independent organizations such as the African Blood Brotherhood
with its divergent Afro-Marxist political theories were anathema to
the Comintern and its Soviet leaders, who believed all communist and
Marxist-Leninist organizations should be unified in a single
communist party and platform in each nation under Moscow's overall
direction and control. In the early 1920s the African Black
Brotherhood was dissolved, with its members merged into the Workers
Party of America and later into the National Negro Labor Congress.
Many early ABB members, however, went on to be key CP cadres for
decades. (ibid)
Communism's roots in the opposing Desegregation movement also went back aways:
"W. E. B. Du Bois one of America's foremost black intellectuals and
a leading figure in the founding of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) had strong ties to Africa. In
1919 he organized the first Pan-African Congress (see Pan-African
Congress of 1919). During the 1920s he traveled to Africa. Yet for
most of his life, Du Bois rejected Black Nationalism. In the 1920s he
opposed Marcus Garvey and the UNIA. During the 1930s, as Du Bois grew
more radical, he turned to socialism and internationalism rather than
to Black Nationalism. But during the harsh anticommunism of the Cold
War era, Du Bois lost his faith in American society. In 1961 he
abandoned the United States and settled in Ghana, where he died two
years later, shortly after taking Ghanaian citizenship." (Source)
In fact, Malcolm X referred to himself as a Communist.(Source), But
it is also possible that he was being blackmailed by the Communists
for his homosexual practices and tendencies:
"In Boston, Little held a variety of jobs and found intermittent
employment with the New Haven Railroad. Between 1943 and 1946, he
drifted from city to city and job to job. He left Boston to live for
a short time in Flint, Michigan. He moved to New York City in 1943.
Living in Harlem, he became involved in drug dealing, gambling,
racketeering, robbery, and steering prostitutes. According to
biographer Bruce Perry, Little occasionally engaged in sex with other
men, usually though not always for money. In a Michigan boarding
house, he raised rent money by sleeping with a gay transvestite.
Later, in New York, Little and some friends raised funds by being
fellated by men at the YMCA where he lived. In Boston a man paid
Little to undress him, sprinkle him with talcum powder..." (Source)
"the Communist party and the Black Muslims had imagined a black state
within America. Malcolm helped the Muslim prepare the ground for this
separate nation, expanding their following from 400 to about 40,000." (source)
Communism bred the radicals that now rule our country. Radicals that
have sold out our interests to Communist China and Russia in exchange
for political power and blind ambition. Sadly, both political parties
are now under their influence. Leading us into a Chinese and Russian
dominated "New World Order". Heaven help all of us when this goal is
fully achieved.
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