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NY 100418676 “The thesis on self determination and the Negro people was thus presented by BROWDER: . “t..,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 separationesee "tThe decision of the Negro people, is therefore, already made. It is that the Negro people do see the opportunity, not as a pious aspiration for an indefi- nite 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 exer- cise of self-determination by the Negro people. By their attitude, the Negro people have exercized their historical right of self-determination....' "BROWDER bases his thesis, first and foremost, on the premise that this 'decision had taken 'definite form which no forseeable development could now change,! But Comrade FOSTER'S basic Marxist-Leninist analsis of the revisionist class-peace policy advocated by BROWDER is 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 EASTLAND'S attack upon the 800,000 Negro troops, even before victory has been com- pletely won, which signalize the attempts to rupture the war-time Negro-white relationseese "The weight of emphasis in BROWDER'S thesis on the tattitude of the Negro people' as the deter-~ mining factor, and our acceptance of it, was a sub- jective and unscientific approach to the question. The end result of BROWDER'S erroneous analysis, in my considered opinion (unless corrected now), would amount to this: If the Negro people made their historic