Evidence suggests that attempts by Communists, to exploit black Americans, were initiated as early as the 1920's. This and numerous other historic documents shed light on political and social attitudes as they developed as well as present trends in black politics and culture. According to this pamphlet, the economic situation of blacks was already improving in the 1920's. There are already one and one-half to two million Negroes in industry in the north. At the same time there is a rapid development of a Negro petit-bourgeoisie, a Negro intelligentsia and even a Negro bourgeoisie.
Black success threatens the authoritarian left agenda of government paternalism.
As early as the 1920's there were, apparently, grass-roots organizations, in the south, involving blacks and whites working together to deal with racial problems. These organizations were probably, like so many of like nature, subverted by and destroyed by the Communists. The Negro Communists should emphasize in their propaganda the establishment of a Negro Soviet Republic. Not only were the Communists teaching the perverse message of hatred for success among poor blacks, but they were pitting the two black economic classes against each other. At the end of the pamphlet, the author admits that the Communists had made few inroads, at the time, in the predominantly patriotic, conservative, Christian back community.