The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Nv LANES W. EORn

The liberation struggle of the Negro
people in the United States against
national oppression, for equal rights,
and for self determination in the
Black Belt Of the South, can go for
ward only on the basis of scientific
theory and practice founded on the
international experience of the work
ing class and the experiences of
human society as a whole. This
theory and practice is the theory and
practice of the class struggle es-
tablished by Karl Marx.
The working class cannot carry
through its revolutionary task of
overthrowing capitalism unless it at
the same time brings to the support
of the revolution the allies of the
proletariat, that is, the broadcast Sec
tons of farmers and other toilers, The
proletariat cannot carry through the
successful struggle against capitalism,
unless it supports and leads the lib
Grafton struggle Of the oppressed ma
tionalities against Imperialism. Meth
er can the oppressed peoples free
themselves from imperialist subjuga-
ton without the active support of
the proletariat.
The Negro reformists and mislead-
ers, fearing the growth Of Commu-
nism among Negroes, consistently
and openly show their opposition to
Marxisnl, and openly expose their
support Of the capitalist system.
These n1isieaders sometimes talk
about Marx, but only to distort, mis-
lead and deny his revolutionary
teachings.
"rHE CRISIS" LIES
ABOUT KARL MARX
In the April and May issues Of the
Crisis" official organ Of the
N.A.A.C.P., edited by DR.. w. B. Du-
Bois, a symposium was organized
against Communism. In the March
issue of this year is an article, ''Karl
Marx and the Negro" which makes
an attempt to block the influence
and spread of the revolutionary
teachings of Marx among Negroes.
One sentence reads as follows:
whatever he Karl Marx said
and did concerning the uplift of
the working class must, therefore,
be modified SO far as the Negroes
are concerned by the fact that he
had not studied at first hand their
peculiar race problem here in Am
erica"
This statement denies Marks
scientific analysis Of capitalism; it
denies the MARKHAM method of work
and approach and the revolutionary
conclusions which follow. 1t is also
misleading in rcsard to the essential
fact Of Marks understanding of the
Negro question in the United States.
Marx never set foot on American
soil, but nobody on this side Of the
Atlantic understood and followed more
closely events of the Civil War and
slavery than Marx did. And he drew
conclusions for us today to follow,
as the correspondence between Marx
and Engels, his co-worker. as well as
q series Of articles in the Vienna
Freie Presse, show.
The International Workingnlen's
Association in 1864 sent g brilliant
letter written by Karl Marx to Abra-
ham Lincoln on the occasion of his
reelection In the very opening
paragraph, Marx speaks, not to Lin
coin, but to the American people,
the working men, the true political
power OF the North, and congratulates
them for re-electing Lincoln by q
large majority and declared that "the
triumphal war-cry of st.. re-elect'"'1
is death to slavery"
POINTED OUT WORKERS
ROLE IN FIGHT ON SLAVERY
But most of all, Marx begins to set
forth, by a penetrating analysis, the
role of the working class, its instinc-
tive feeling toward Negro freedom,
and the distinctive destiny Of its class
interests.
When 5000 shareholders by armed
force tried to maintain slavery and
to rescind the establishment of the
Rights of Man, and maintained that
slavery was @ beneficial institution,
'then," said Marx, 'the working class
Of Europe understood at once, even
before the fanatic partisanship of the
upper classes that the slave
holders rebellion was to sound the
tocsin for Il general holy war of
property against labor, and that for
the men of labor, with their hopes
for the future, even their past CON
quests were at stake in that tremend I