RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA

MARXISM AND THE NEGRO PROBLEM: A DICUSSION ARTICLE

1944


Written: This article was written as a contribution to discussions in the Workers' Party (USA) on how the WP should relate to the issue of Black liberation in the USA. Dunayevskaya drew on Marx and Lenin's writings on the National Question to argue against American exceptionalism with regard to the Negro Question
First published: 1944 (internal party document)
Source: Raya Dunayevskaya Collection (#259)
Digitalisation, proof-reading, editing & html markup: Chris Gilligan, December 2024


A: The Negro Question as a National Question

B: Economic Roots of the Negro Problem

Conclusion


Related Reading

C. L. R. James, 'The Historical Development of the Negro in the United States', (1943)

David Coolidge, 'Negroes and the Labor Movement: An Answer to F. Forrest', (1946).

Raya Dunayevskaya, Thematic Collection on the National Question