For A Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question - Harry Haywood
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The Problem of Black Self-Determination
Haywood insists that this debate isn't just about our strategy of black liberation but it's tied to a broader question of socialist strategy overall. He ties the question of black self-determination to the question of revisionism more largely and he argues that the push against self-determination within the CPUSA is part of a broader revisionist push to gut the party of classical. Heywood, the choice to abandon the self-determination thesis corresponds to a choice to adopt a revisionist line on capitalism more broadly.
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