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| Louis Burnham addressing longshoremen and teamsters at a right to vote rally, New Orleans, 1943. |
The article by Timothy Johnson begins with the follow quotation: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already,given and transmitted from the past"- Karl Marx.
James and Esther Jackson, along with their colleagues, Edward Strong, Louis Burnham, and others too many to mention, made history. Through their work in the Southern Negro Youth Congress they challenged racial segregation in the U.S. South during the 1930s and 1940s. They organized tobacco workers, agitated for the right of African Americans to vote, and demonstrated against lynching. Yet, in spite of their individual heroism, they did not make history ‘‘under self-selected circumstances.’’
The context of their actions was their membership or association with the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). In the late 1920s and early 1930s the CPUSA highlighted the struggle of African Americans for liberation and equality as an inseparable part of the struggle of the working class. In so doing they broke new ground for left-wing organizations in the United States and created a template that nearly all socialists and left-wing organizations have since followed. How was that template created, what were some of the immediate results which followed?
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I think the same mentality than Karl Marx, Men made them history, but the African have a bad one, with fights and violence, so they deserve revenge for all the humilliation on history?
ResponderEliminarWell, I think it is not neccesary revenge, it's true they had a bad history but only revenge produces more violence, and in the end, all of us will be affected for the consequences.
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