The Communist Party had an ideal but no language for Black Americans

Evidence

Quite early on in his party experience, Wright while reflecting on his mother’s reaction of horror to Communist propaganda had come to the conclusion that: “They had a program, an ideal, but they had not yet found a language.” Richard Crossman (ed.), The God That Failed, Harper, New York, 1965, p. 107. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2473

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the communicative gap that doomed Communist outreach to Black workers.