The 1922 Comintern thesis pledged support to every Negro movement undermining capitalism

Evidence

One of the most significant developments in the Fourth Congress of the Communist International was the creation of a Negro Commission and the adoption of the Commission’s Thesis on the Negro Question which concludes with the declaration that “the Fourth Congress recognizes the necessity of supporting every form of Negro Movement which tends to undermine capitalism and Imperialism or to impede their further progress,” pledges the Communist International to fight “for race equality of the Negro with the White people, for equal wages and political and social rights,” to “exert every effort to admit Negroes into Trade Unions” and to “take immediate steps to hold a general Negro Conference or Congress in Moscow.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1044

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• The Comintern’s 1922 Fourth Congress formally adopted support for all Negro movements (similarity 0.94)
• The Comintern’s Negro Theses marked a theoretical advance over Garvey’s UNIA internationalism (similarity 0.84)
• Lenin personally drove the Comintern’s recruitment of American Blacks (similarity 0.83)
• The Comintern sought to convert Black race-consciousness into class-consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• Early Black Marxists blamed Marxist parties’ failure on refusing to engage Black realities (similarity 0.82)
• The Comintern’s Negro program was political opportunism rationalized after the fact. (similarity 0.81)
• The Communist Party’s Negro work was genuinely vital in the early 1930s (similarity 0.81)
• The Comintern conceived the Black struggle as an international sector of world anticolonialism. (similarity 0.80)
• Comintern officials dismissed Black nationalism and separatism as failed movements (similarity 0.79)
• Lenin personally initiated Communist recruitment of American Blacks in 1921 (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism failed to comprehend nationalism, consciousness, racism, and Black history (similarity 0.78)
• Marxism failed among Black Americans because Communists ignored racial reality (similarity 0.78)
• Lenin personally ordered American Communists to recruit Black radicals from 1921 onward (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Lenin personally drove the Comintern’s recruitment of American Blacks #expands (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1029
• Padmore saw the Comintern’s about-face as a betrayal of black people. #complicates (0.45) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2377