The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO

italist system which ttrives OF the exploitation
and nysery of the working class All of their
arguments against Communism are aimed to
bolster up this vicious system Their arguments
are the cheapest of apologies for capitalism.
This shows the complete bankruptcy of the
Negro bourgeoisie. These are the gentlemen who
speak of leading" the struggles to emancipate
the Negro toilers and bitterly attack the grow
ing hegemony of the Negro proletariat over the
Negro liberation movement. These are the gen
tlemen who sneeringly refer to the toiling Ne
gro masses as "the ignorant sections of the Ne
gro race"
Moreover, behind all of the arguments of these
bourgeois Negro editors is not only lack Of
faith in their arguments but real knowledge
that these arguments do not correspond to the
facts. These gentlemen know, and admit, that
constantly new sections of the white working
class are taking up the struggle for the innocent
Scottsboro boys and for equal rights for the
Negro people. This is happening under the
leadership of the Communist Party. The work
ing-class is being given leadership and prin-
ciple-a class policy of its own against the class
policy of the white bourgeoisie and its agents:
the Greens, VOLS Du Boises, Thomases, etc.
One of the results of the activities of the
Communist Party was seen in the presence of
scores of white southern workers at the Ma
tional Nominating Convention of the Commun-
ist Party in Chicago These southern workers
came to fight under the banner of Commun-
ism on the basis Of complete equality of the
Negro masses They stood up at the convention
and gave full support to the program of the
Communist Party, declaring their determination
to fight for Negro rights, and to win the south
ern white masses to that fight. Most of them
were already actively engaged in this fight.
In Atlanta, workers flour of them whte) are
facing death for the Crime of organizing Negro
and white workers together
A year ago in Texas, two native born workers,
Coder and Hurst, were jailed for their activities
in the struggle for Negro rights. They were
later released-into the hands of waiting gang
of white business men. They. were brutally
beaten up thrown into river and left for dead.
This not only shows that white workers, even
in the South, can be won for the Communist
program of Negro equality for the fight for
Negro rights, but it also shows the bitter hos
tility of the white ruling class to this program.
The arguments of these bourgeois Negro ed
itors show that they cannot conceive of the Ne
gro workingclass daring to fight against its i'm
perialist oppressors. What is this but the white
bourgeois theory of Negro inferiority? They re-
fuse to see the role of the Negro working-cla
q
whole in the process of making the revolution
in the United States and building up Socialism.
They cannot conceive Of the Negro working-clas
as part Of the proletarian dictatorship putting
down reaction, stamping out white chauvinism
and establishing their rights.
In their grovelling serviIty to the white bour-
geoisie these gentlemen cannot imagine state
Of affairs in which whites do not rule. They
constantly pirate of the treatment" that is, and
'will be handed down" to Negroes. In all of
their arguments they show their complete &C
ceptance and support of the white bourgeois
dictum that Negroes are inferior, that Negroes
must stay in their place" that they can only
expect such rights" as the white ruling class
condescends to permit them.
What is the basis for this 1nferiority complex
on the part Of these bourgeois Negro editors?
The Negro bourgeoisie is parasitic bourgeoisie
It is not connected with the industries It has
developed on the basis of Jim Crowism It's
economic base is Jim Crow base It's business
activities are almost exclusively confined to
small businesses, like insurance rent collections,
etc. Its existence is based on the segregation
and Jim Grow policies Of the white bourgeoisie
1t thrives most where segregation is most en-
forced.
And 1t sees in the growing unity of the Ne
gro and white masses a direct threat against
its Jim Grow economic base The growing unity
Of the white and Negro toilers threaten to break
through this Jim Crow base. This drives the
Negro bourgeoise more and more into the camp
Of the irnperialist enemy.
Their sham opposition to the white ruling
class is merely in the nature of manouvering
for concessions, for larger share In the profits
from the increasingly bitter exploitation of the
Negro masses. They do not seek to break down
the system of oppression. Rather they come out
more and more openly in its defense. Their aim
Is merely for fuller participation in the profits
inside of the system which so frightfully op-
presses, degrades and robs the toiling Negro
masses.
On tomorrow's Daily Worker will deal with,
examine more in detail Dr. Du Bots arguments
in the June "Crisis" as we'll as his arguments
in his programatic article in the September
u93D "Criss")