The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
August /, 1891.
Editor, Negro World,
335 Lenox Avenue,
New York City.

New York City.
Sir: Your program being definitely one OF
misleading the Negro masses and giving OBJ
iective support. under cover Of fake struggle
phrases to their inperialist oppressors it Is not
surprising to find you in your issue Of August
attempting to distort into knship with Carney
national refor1nism the revolutionary demand
and struggle Of the world Communist movement
for the right Of self-deternination Of Negro
rnajorites throughout the world.
Claiming that Brother Briggs unconsciously
breaches GARVEYISM under another name,
namely. struggle for Negro rights" you quote
a paragraph from an article of mine sent out
bv Inprecorr international Press Correspon-
dence), and discovered by you in one OF the
organs of the South African Communist Party.
For the purpose Of your dishonest attempt to
befuddle the masses, you could not have selected
a more unfortunate quotation, since the para
graph quoted clearly raises two demands quite
foreign to the Garvey philosophy. These two
demands are % unconditional equality Of the
Negro People, and 90 the right Of the Negro
rnaiorities in the Black Belt" of the Southern
States and in the West Indies to determine
and control their form of government
In view of the persistent attacks Of your top
leadership on the revolutionary demand fcr So
cial equality the righteousness of your pretense
that the Communist program outlined in my ar
ticle is "unadulterated Garveyisnl' is at once
exposed, since there can be no unconditional
equality without social equality. And the para
graph quoted from my article plainly raises the
demand for unconditional equality
Garvey Program Silent Demand of U. S.
Negro Masses
And where in your Garvey program or in
any utterance of any of your leaders is there
any demand for the right of self-determination
for the Negro People in those sections Of the
South where they constitute majority Of the
population? Or for the overwhelming Negro
majorities in most of the West Indian islands?
Where in your program is there word of pro-
test or objection or the slightest call for strug
gle against the impudent imperialst policy of
white supremacy under which these masses are
robbed and held in virtual slavery? Is it not
fact that Garveyism shamelessly shares the
reactonary philosophy of the fascist XII KluX
Khan that the United States is a white mans
country? Has not Garveysm consistently sur
rendered the struggle for Negro rights within
the United States and the West Indies? Has
not Garveyism turned into reactionary slogan
the essentially progressive demand for free
Africa by preaching the surrender of Negro
rights in the United States and the West IN
dies and a peaceful return to an Africa still
enslaved by the imperialists? A demand sfur-
ther negated by Garveys infamous statement
that the Negro must be loyal to all flags I'M
der which he lives" Has not Garveyisrn be-
trayed even the struggle for free Africa BY
peddlng illusions of nperialist charity and CO.
operation in the establishment of Negro home
land appeals to the robber League of Nations,
Of liberation through prayer and divine inter
vention, of Liberation through the creation of
Negro capitalism of rent-gouging landlords, ex-
plotting employers, stock sellers, etc. Of liberia