The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-13
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

(This is the second of two articles by Comrade
Briggs on Garveyism. The first article was
published yesterday
Under cover of fake struggle phrases, Garvey-
o.sm deliberately allies itself with the imperial
ist oppressors and enemies of the Negro masses.
Ciarveyisnn peddles all the illusions created by
the master GLASS to befuddle the oppressed Ne
gro and white masses. 1t spreads not only sthe
Illusion OF escape from oppression through cap
italism but of supernatural intervention of
childish dependence upon the white bosses god,
of submission to the will" of that god, thus
helping the imperalists to divert the discomfort
of the masses into refornist movements with
foolish promises of solution by the simple eX-
pedient of exchanging white capitalist eXploiters
for black capitalist exploiters, white gods for
black godss, etc.
Supports Bosses Isolation of Negro Masses.
Capitalism fosters the isolation of the Negro
masses in order to effect their greater exploita-
ton. Garveyism embraces Fundamentally this
enemy policy, deliberately playing into the hands
of the enemies of white and Negro workers
who seek to split the working-class in order
to weaken its resistance-the imperialst enemies
who keep the Negro masses at the very bottom
of capitalist society by branding them as Gin
feriors, as mot fit to associate with white men"
on the job socially. Marcus Garvey in the
Negro World of September 6, shameessly sup
ports this doctrine:
I'VE believe that the white race should protect
itself against racial contamination" says this
treacherous misleader and faker, adding an open
appeal to the Ku Klux Klan, the Caucasian
Crusaders, the American Fascist, and other
extra-legal instruments of the boss-class to en-
force this doctrine of Negro inferiority, of Ne
gro isolation as pariah-class of "untouchables"
I'VE are expecting the cooperation and sup
port of liberal White America in the promulga-
ton of the ideal of racial purity"
Garveysm Has No Solution For United States
Negroes.
c1arveysm has no solution for the pressing
problems of the IL to IA millions of Negroes
whose unrequited toll transformed the South
from wilderness. The program of Garveyism
for these masses is abject surrender of their
rights and emigration to an Africa grooming I'M
der the oppression of another group of imperi-
alists. Says Garvey in the Negro World of No.
vember 16 1880:
THE Uniersval Negro Improvement Associa-
ton is planning a sane and proper system of
emigration by which Negroes from America
West Indies and Central America can emigrate
to black Africa, where black men administer the
affairs of government in its three chief executive
branches"
1ucIe dIe only TWO SO-CdueO independent
nations in Africa today. Liberia and Abyssinia.
And the black government of Liberia is as much
puppet of United States imperialism as is the
black government of Haiti. Abyssinia is a pup
pet of United States, French, British and Italian
imperialisrns. 1t retains its semblance of in
dependence merely because of the conflicting in
terests OF these imperialisms none of which is
ready to surrender it wholly to any of the Others
Garvey's Fake Self Determination Demand"
Garveyism, it will be noted, has no demands
for the Negro masses of the United States, the
West Indies and Central America. Its fake fight
for Negro liberation is confined to long dis
lance demand, most of the time cringing re-
quest to the imperialists League of Nations"
for self-determination for the African masses
Yet it is in the United States that Garveyism
was born. And it is in the United States, West
Indies and Central America that it today has
whatever forces are left if after the many wide
spread OBJECTIONS it has suffered as result of