The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
White Chanuinisn1>>
What 1t Is and How
to Fight Against 1t
An Answer to Worker Who Asks Origin of
Word Chauvinism; What It Means in Present
Day Conditions; Is There Negro Chauvinism?

lind them enslaved by imperialism
Abyssinia is surrounded by British,
Italian and French Imperialism. The
main gateway to Abyssinia is con-
trolled by French Imperialism. The
Negro people have no imperialist
aims. and we can in no way speak OF
chauvinism IN Abyssinia or otherA
Negro countries.
The capitalists in all countries adj
vance chauvinism by every means.
They create suspicion against the
colored races. Write lurid articles
about them. SANDER them in the
movies. They do all this to continue
their oppression of the colonial
peoples. They do it to justify new
wars for colonial thieyery. At the
same time where a people has been
enslaved, even within the territory
of the imperialist country, as the Ne
groes in the United States, and the
national minorities in other coun-
tries, the same chauvinist spirit is
spread to keep up the subsection.
The Negro masses in the United
States struggling against this oppres-
sion, develop a national conscious
ness. The proper approach on the
part of all workers to this national
consciousness, and struggle for ma
tional liberation, of the. Negro masses,
is important for the general attack
on the oppressors of all toilers.
The Negro masses, struggling for
national liberation and self determi-
nation in the Black Belt, are an ally
of the proletariat, struggling for pro-
letarian revolution. They are both
fighting against the same imperial
ISM The Negroes are struggling for
their liberation as nation. The pro-
letariat, for their liberation as q
class. Both are directed against the
same enslavers, and the struggle Of
both can be united for the mutual
success of both.
1t can be seen from what we have
said that the expression Negro chau-
vinism" is incorrect. The Negro
people do not aim to enslave other
nations. They are struggling for
their own national liberation.
The accepted leadership Of the Ne
groes, those, who are wined and dined
by the white ruling class. help in
spreading this view. This Negro
leadership, in the main, is sold out
bag and baggage to the white i'm
perialists. For measly concessions
for themselves, they sell out their
people. They attempt to use the
growing mass consciousness to de-
velop, not struggle against the
white ruling class, but to bring about
a division of the Negro people from
the toiling masses. They try to break
the alliance with the revolutionary
workers which would guarantee the
success of the. struggle for national
liberation and self determination Of
the Negroes.
Thus it is not question of Negro
chauvinism," but that of struggle
against the distorted nationalism Of
the Negro bourgeois leaders which
they use to Justify their support to
the white ruling class.
For example, Du Bots, Of the MA.
A.C.P., and others like him, declare
that the white proletariat Is the enc
my of the Negro people. They do
this on every occasion to keep the
Negro masses, in their struggle for
national liberation, from becoming
the ally of the proletariat. But this
does not prevent Du Bois and his ilk
from acting with the white exploiterS
against the Negro and white revolu-
| tionists
The white workers must wage
relentless struggle against chauvinism
and strive nv all TueanS IN establish
the unity in struggle of all toilers.