Comintern officials dismissed Black nationalism and separatism as failed movements

Evidence

Reed defined the American Negro problem as “that of a strong racial and social movement, and of a proletarian labor movement advancing very fast in class-consciousness.” He alluded to the Garvey movement in terms that ruled out all Negro nationalism and separatism: “The Negroes have no demands for national independence. All movements aiming at a separate national existence for Negroes fail, as did the ‘Back to Africa Movement’ of a few years ago. They consider themselves first of all Americans at home in the United States. This makes it very much simpler for the Communists.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1039

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader arc of how the Comintern dismissed racial-nationalist currents that the Black radical tradition would later reclaim.