> Well, that was pretty much Marx's view, or at least the view of many,
> many
> Marxists, right?
>
> -- Luke
Quoting from, "Trotskyism In the United States, " edited by George Breitman, Paul Le Blanc and Alan Wald, pg. 7, >..."in the words of Harry Haywood, 'the elimination of racism and the achievement of complete equality of Blacks as an inevitable byproduct of a socialist revolution in the United States." Inevitable.
Cf. Russell Jacoby, "Towards a Critique of Automatic Marxism, " Telos #10, 1971, partially reworked into his, "Dialectic of Defeat, " Cambridge Univ. Press. Second and Third International orthodox marxism shared much more than orthodox Leninists believe and write. See the Lucio Colletti chapter, "Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International," in "From Rousseau to Lenin, " Monthly Review Press, early 70's.
-- Michael Pugliese