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rogerashton

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3. Well, one hundred fifty years is a cloudy lens to look through,

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 5, 2015, 01:32 PM

Oct 2015

so it is hard to be absolutely sure. After all, the first use of the term "racism" seems to have been in the twentieth century. However, Marx as a journalist covered the civil war, and his comments on it may say something about his attitude toward what we now call "racism."

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/internationalist/pamphlets/MARX-on-Slavery-OptV5.pdf

Anyway, no party has more consistently stood for black people's rights than the Communist Party. And no, I am not a Communist myself -- but this is just a matter of historic fact.

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