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II. CRITIQUE OF ORGANIZATION AND PROCESS
A. Goals
B. Format and Preparation
C. Concerning Charges of Factionalism and Caucusing
III. CRITIQUE OF THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL CONTENT
In this section of the paper we will examine the positions expressed in the “Working Papers of the National Conference on Racism and National Oppression” published and distributed by Line of March Publications.
We propose to critique both their general methodological approach and the specific theoretical framework and political line contained in the papers. Although the methodology (the way a line is developed) and content (the actual line itself) will be treated separately for purposes of analysis, we recognize that their method and their political line on racism form an interrelated totality. In other words, their methodological approach affects the conclusions they arrive at.
This critique will focus on the part of the conference papers, “Racial Oppression and National Oppression: Their Particularities and Their Interconnection in the United States,” which establishes their overall theoretical framework for approaching these questions and because it was the focus of most of the debate at the Conference itself.
A. Methodology
B. Substantive Critique