Modern John Brown: Herbert Aptheker

[Michael Yates]

Myrdal suggested that slaves have been allowed to buy parcels from plantations with long-term low interest loans, but he never suggested that slaves themselves be paid.  As Randall Robinson says in his fine book, "The Debt," Myrdal, in his book on race ("An American Dilemma"), never mentions the words, "reparation, restitution,
indemnity, or compensation."

Michael Yates

Charles Brown wrote:


> >>> Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk 10/10/00 06:50PM >>>
>
> I remember reading around the research project that became Gunnar
> Myrdal's big book on race. I think Aptheker was initially involved in
> some of the research but then witch-hunted out. He wrote an
> (intemperate, IMHO) critique of Myrdal.
>
> ))))))))))
>
> CB: Intemperate, radical, whatever. Myrdal wrote a liberal analysis of U.S. racism. Aptheker , an associate of the eminent African American scholar W.E.B. Dubois and Marxist, wrote a critique from a Marxist and Black radical standpoint. I don't know anybody radical who thinks Gunnar Myrdal had any special insights on race in the U.S.