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Fs cn ‘aco | a ee NY 100-18676 we a " Browder bases his ‘thesis, first and foremost, on the premise that-" , this 'decisiont had taken ‘definite form which no forseeable development- could now change.! But Comrade Foster's basic Marxist-Leninist analsis of . ~ a the revisionist class-peace policy advocated by Browder ts utterly upheld .. in this field by current developments. Witness the vehemence with which —. the permanent FEPC is being fought, and more recently the scandalous libel © and lynch spirit of Senator Eastlandts attack upon the 800,000 Nekro troops, : a even before victory has been completely won, which signalize the attempte to ropture the war-time Negro-whitd relations. So oe " Where are the ‘decisive forces! reputedly at work for "Negro _ equality'? It is obvious that any such illusion could only disarm the working class which has not yet been advanced and united anough to compal 5 anti-lynch legislation to be placed on the statute books of the landJ tea sd On what was the premise that 'the Negroes had made their historic decision! based fundamentally? Was it based on a fundamental appraisal of the present economic, political and social status of the Negro people in the Black Belt, where (only) the question of self=determination holds? " Was it based on the prospect of a long-term alliance of the working class and the Negro people to achteve the 'guarantees! of which Browder wrote: ‘'Guarantees that there will not be 4 disappointment such as was administered by the Republican Party after the Civil War!? " Or was it based on a pious hope that the struggle for full eco~ nomic, social and political equality of the Negro people would be ‘legis- lated! and somehow brought into being through reforms from on top? (Some nine million Negroes live in the Black Belt under Jim Crow oppression. They are the mainstay of the source of cheap labor for monopoly capital in the United States, Their status is upheld and backed up by the Southern feudalists who are the foundation of monopoly capitalist oppression of the Negro people in the nations) = re . " "It cannot be denied, of course, that Browder's thesis was supported and accepted on such apparent evidences in our national life as the in. fluence on the Roosevelt Administration, which removed to a material degree the deeply rooted official sanction of discrimination against the Negro. - peopje; on the growth of unity and political maturity of the Negro people, .— together with the progressive labor movement; especially as evidenced in the a aaa