Black freedom struggle and the CP's contributions [sic]

[Mathew Forstater]

Drewk- If you are referring to me by "some quarters of this list" I'm
sorry.  I certainly intended to engage in a reasonable conversation.  I
appreciate the reference below.  My references were in no way intended
to imply that all questions were settled, etc. Just the opposite.
Almost all the figures I mentioned changed their stance many times over
the years as they struggled with the issues of the intersection of race
and class.  This, to me, indicates the difficulties and complexities of
these questions.  Best, Mat

Andrew Kliman wrote:


> Below are excerpts from the autobiography of Charles Denby,
> _Indignant Heart:  A Black Worker's Journal_ (Detroit:  Wayne
> State University Press), 1989 ed., pp. 163-65; pp. 240-42.  Denby
> grew up in a sharecropping family in Alabama and became an
> autoworker after moving to Detroit.  He was also the editor of
> _News & Letters_, the Marxist-Humanist newspaper and theoretical
> journal.
>
> I much prefer Denby's forthrightness and sharp class perspective
> to the equivocation and realpolitik coming from some quarters of
> this list.
>
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> "... the *practice* of philosophy is itself *theoretical.*  It is
> the *critique* that measures the individual existence by the
> essence, the particular reality by the Idea." -- K.M.
>
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