I
think that one of our collective failings as Black peoples in the west
has been our collective choice to move away from understanding class,
class divisions and class oppressions consciously, critically.
There
was a moment, a time when the forefathers and foremothers did not
concern themselves with whether those who wanted to see their defiance
stopped called them communists. I think that if they weren’t fully
communists they were definitely, as conscious working class people who
understood themselves as revolutionaries, whose goals where collective
and (truly) left rather than hierarchical and right of center or extreme
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