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NY 100-1867, sel ut a an J ert oN It is extremely necessary to examine throughly how our revisionist “~ conclusions, under the name of Marxist-Leninist science, affected our work oe - dinall fields, so that we my now draw the correct conclusions with which to ’ arm the working class and all the oppressed in our country for full victory . over reaction and fascism, ee _ a, " I want to discuss in this article one aspect of the line we ade. =. hered to, namely Browder's thesis, contained in his article 'On the Negroes and the Right of Self~Determination!, which was included in the Workers ~- Library Publisher's pamphlet, Commnists in the Struggle for Negro Rights. s . That this thesis was first put forth in October, 1943, and pub- lished in the January, 1944, issue of The Communist, is further evidence of what has already been noted by some contributors to these pages: that our — revisionism was not something born overnight, but that it had a history, which must now be self-critically examined by each of us who shared in unm .- questioning and formal acceptance, without study, thought, or tfue com -.- viction, . " I was one who accepted this thesis as part and parcel of our, * Whole estimate of the relationship of forces on a world and on a national ~~ ° _ scale. a " "" "The thesig on self-determination and the Negro people was thus * presented by Browder: rr rr e — t sees the crisis of history has taken a turn of such character that the Negro people in the United States have found it possible to make their historic decision once and for all. Their decision is for their complete integration into the American nation as a whole, and not for sep- aration.s.ee ' __. ‘The decision of the Negro people, is therefore, already made, It is that the Negro people do see the opportunity, not as a Pious aspiration hee for an indefinite future, but as as immediate political task under the present system of approximating the position of equal, citizens in america, This is, ~.- in itself, an exercise of the right of self~determination by the Negro 8 peopie. By their attitude, the Negro people have exerci,ed their historical |" right of self-determinationss se! ees porieat ~ ¥ .