The Comintern conceived the Black struggle as an international sector of world anticolonialism.

Evidence

The perspective of the Commission was thus international, reflecting the internationalism of Marxist organization, the theory of capitalism, and its membership. As the chairman of the Commission, Comrade Sasha [Stokes] had announced: [T]he world Negro movement must be organized: in America, as the center of Negro culture and the crystallization of Negro protest; in Africa, the reservoir of human labor for the further development of Capitalism; in Central America (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Nicaragua, and other “Independent” Republics), where American Imperialism dominates; in Puerto Rico, Haiti, Santo Domingo and other islands washed by the waters of the Caribbean … in South Africa and the Congo … in East Africa. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1046

Categorization

• DEFINE: The Negro Commission’s operative map of the Black world — America as cultural center, Africa as labor reservoir, Caribbean as imperial sphere — defines the Comintern’s global Black geography.