One of the reading selections of the African American History Month educational guide: Chapter 7 from Class, Race and Black Liberation, Published 1977, International Publishers Co
Quotations in this section deal with the theory of the nature and role of objective processes in social development, starting with a section on 'Historical Materialism' which applies the philosophy and methodology of dialectical materialism to society. Then objective processes in the economy of capitalism are dealt with in the section titled 'Political Economy of Capitalism.'
We are dealing with the largest working class in our history. Not counting farm labor, figures that I was not able to come up with, there are roughly 130 million workers in the U.S. economy today. If you add in the unemployed, who are very much part of the working class, then the figure is probably closer to 135 million. For comparison, in 1948 there were a little more than...
Our goal in this brief report is to lay bare the relationship between the fight for women's equality and the struggle of the working class, to highlight why the ultra right targets women, and, lastly, to challenge the Party to recast its understanding of the new reality of the importance of the Woman Question in light of the significant emergence of women as members of the paid work force as...
If I were to list only a fraction of the names of the thousands of people who wrote for, or cartooned for or in other ways supported the Daily Worker, Western Worker, Daily World, Peoples World, Voz del Pueblo and now Peoples Weekly World and Nuestro Mundo in short, the Communist press in all its forms during our 83 years of existence wed be here for a long time...
The Peoples Weekly World is the weekly voice to reach out and influence thousands who are angry, who are questioning, and who want to change things. People are openin times like theseto alternative ideas. The newspaper can go beyond the one-on-one conversations and reach out with Marxist ideasideas of unity in every waymulti-racial, men and women, immigrant/U.S.-born, gay/straight, internationalism, pro-union, ideas that another world is possible with scientific socialism and...
Whereas, human migration has under conditions of advanced capitalism, imperialism and corporate-driven globalization, reached an unprecedented scale in our time. ...
Can our Party be built faster than its present very slow pace? How? Growth of the Party is a problem we have been grappling with ever since our height in 1946-48 of 80-100,000 members. If there were simple answers, easy to fix, we would have done so long ago.
I am going to respond to the following questions: How does the Partys strategic line stand up to the outcome of the elections? Does the Party need to change its strategic line? If not, what do we need to do to move forward?
I would like to begin by recognizing and appreciating our local candidates who are out in the field in this election cycle. Through them we build on the legacy of the great Benjamin J. Davis, Communist Councilman from Harlem, and others who served the needs of working people valiantly in public office. At this moment, what a great contribution our candidates have to make from the grass roots up, projecting...