The front cover of Harry Haywood’s autobiography “Black Bolshevik”. Harry Haywood was a lifelong U.S. communist who fused Marxism-Leninism with the Black liberation struggle. A veteran of WWI and the Harlem Renaissance radical scene, he studied at the Lenin School in Moscow, helped draft the Comintern’s “Black Belt Nation” thesis (defining the African-American South as an oppressed nation in the Leninist sense), and fought with the International Brigades in Spain. His autobiography “Black Bolshevik” (1978) is both a personal history and a political line—a defense of Stalin-era Marxism-Leninism applied to U.S. racial capitalism and a critique of cold-war era CPUSA revisionist failings. “Black Bolshevik” is essential reading for understanding how economic class and national liberation intertwine in the imperial core. #HarryHaywood #BlackBolshevik #MarxismLeninism #AntiRevisionism #BlackLiberation
Harry Haywood fused #Marxism-Leninism & #BlackLiberation, from the Comintern’s “Black Belt Nation” line to fighting in Spain. His “Black Bolshevik” defends Stalin-era theory & indicts U.S. revisionism—a cornerstone of anti-imperialist class analysis.
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