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304 THE COMMUNIST

revolutionary petty-bourgeoisie and the proletariat who have been fooled by the bourgeois leaders, will join the movement.

"But this does not alter the fact that all such movements objectively play into the hands of the American bourgeoisie inasmuch as they separate the masses of the colored petty-bourgeoisie and the proletariat from the class struggle and from the real struggle for social equality. Instead of tearing down the Chinese Wall existing between the races, especially between the black and white workers, black and white farmers, each separatist movement consolidates this wall and deepens the chasm, sows the seeds of race hatred and animosity."

Comrade Shick divorces the Negro revolutionary movement from the revolutionary crisis in America which may flare up in connection with war and other complications fatal to capitalism. Will the American bourgeoisie be able to crush such a movement or not? This is a problem of the correlation of forces, in which the Negroes will occupy a place not of least importance.

Comrade Shick weeps over the so-called race riots and the opportunities of the Garvey movement as expressed in the "race riots." Can those who want to be set free from the slavery known as "American democracy" by organizing their own State in America be considered reactionaries? Can people who in defending themselves had to kill whites, people infuriated by the violence and abuses of the whites, be blamed for organizing the riots? We regret that this struggle in America has not developed widely enough (Garvey's ideas kept the Negroes from such direct struggle), so that the crisis might be sharpened, the crisis which then developed in the United States. I think that all Communists should have been on the side of the Negroes during the so-called "race riots."

It should be understood that "the road to one aim, full equality closest kinship and further fusion of all nations goes here apparently through various concrete directions." (Lenin, Vol. XIX p. 187. Rus. Ed.) For Comrade Shick the means of doing away with race hatred it to be found in pedagogical methods which for some reason he calls revolutionary. Is it not a mockery of the word "revolution" to call Dubois' programme revolutionary, a programme which sees all evils coming from bad education and not from the imperialist system? Dubois' programme is to convince the whites that they must not treat the Negroes so badly.

But we think that "National hatred will not disappear so quickly. This hatred will be quite justified for some time on the part of the oppressed nation. It will be overcome only after the victory of Socialism and after the final establishment of complete democratic relations between nations." (Lenin, Vol. XIX, p. 193).

Comrade Shick believes that it is possible to re-educate ten million