Or take Malcolm X's 2/65 speech at the LSE reproduced and defended by Proyect:
"The store that we trade with is operated by someone else. And these are the people who suck the economic blood of our community.
And being in a position to suck the economic blood of our community, they control the radio programs that cater to us, they control the newspapers, the advertising, that cater to us. They control our minds. They end up controlling our civic organizations. They end up controlling us economically, politically, socially, mentally, and every other kind of way. They suck our blood like vultures."
Without saying so explicitly, this begans as a rant on the jewish owner of a small ghetto business as sucking the economic blood of the black community (which is simply a ridiculous economic analysis or rather it is traditional anti semitism) to the demonology that they control all the media in the black community. Indeed if read carefully, this manic argument says that because jews control the small shops in the black community, they own all the media that caters to the black community. At any rate, who is this all controlling "they"? This "they" that controls "the civic organizations"? Did Malcolm X ever give up believing that the integration movement was organized by Jews?
Malcolm X's formulations are certainly loose and hardly worthy of simple praise. This of course is not to say that there is a special form of black anti semitism but an American form that was accepted by the NOI from which Malcolm X never broke free.
Yours, Rakesh
I am out of posts so here is more on the BRC, but here is a set of questions that I posed to Louis P.
By separatist strategies, do you mean separate organisations focused on specific democratic rights historically denied in an apartheid America (and thinking dialectically as a CLR Jamesian, have conditions changed such that your hero would no longer have supported a separate black organization, esp after the harm wrought by Farakahn's racial exclusivism); or do you mean a struggle for black belt secessionism--actual black separatism? What do you mean by separatist strategies? Is what Malcolm X meant the same as what CLR James meant? Is it the same as what the BRC today wants? Or is the BRC trying to form an organization to counter Farakhan's that is now trying to lead black people into the republican party and and thus to keep blacks within the fold of the democrats and the afl cio? This would be a different goal for a separate black organization than envisioned either by Malcolm X or CLR James--if that is indeed the goal of the BRC and its leader Fletcher, Jr. What kind of criticism of the Demos and the AFL CIO do you think should be developed from the viewpoint of the mass of black workers? Is the BRC developing a sound critique?