Carroll says:
> "Racist Communists" is an oxymoron because
racism is inherently a barrier (perhaps the chief barrier) to the
mobilization of a movement around communist goals.
But this is just to say that commies _shouldn't_ be racists. (Similarly with Christians, btw.) In fact many are or have been. Recall the infamous old South African CP slogan from the 20s, Workers Unite for a White South Africa! And the CPSU was notoriously anti-semitic.
--jks