"I wasnāt against communism, but i canāt say I was for it either. At first, I viewed it suspiciously, as some kind of white manās concoction, until i read works by African revolutionaries and studied the African liberation movements. Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didnāt rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism.
The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldnāt working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldnāt working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.
I got into heated arguments with sisters or brothers who claimed that the oppression of Black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. Thatās why youāve got Blacks who support Nixon or Reagan or other conservatives. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didnāt take too much brains to figure out that Black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. [Earlier in my life] When someone asked me what communism was, I opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didnāt have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a Black trench coat and a Black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners.
I never forgot that day. Weāre taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us donāt have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy isā¦ ā
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