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t ro oe ---yn chapter 4 he discusses the effect which the disfranchisemept and oppression of the americln Negro play in this world pictulF. Bols is eminently qualified thy ejiperience and understariing fas ell as being a recognized spokes- ‘mean of colored people to make his ‘ Montribution to a solution of the ‘world problem of colonies. ; From whence flows this under- , standing? DuBois does not profess | being a Marxist and there is \ much that could be added to give & ; rounded out Marxist interpretation , of the facts he has adduced to the | discussion. What is inherent in Du~ Bois' contribution is the center of the greatest cap country in the world. from the fact that the Negro workers bavye become an insepar- |. able part of the jabor reoverment i America and that they have ‘rem into the Negro peoples’ ement as a whole the meth-: and basic current of the Jabor | movement in world affairs. I Ot all oppressed peoples ef, + ' gomparable size, the Negro people: ' speak and think in the language | spoken by the largest combination | ef peoples who have developed modern industrisllam. All the advanced thought of the world is made available to them in the English language. _ ce Through their leaders, and first - . * of all of isbor leaders, and i - . through thelr struggles they are ‘ Coe ‘ playing « role which not only af- | . a ; , fecta their own position in’ "or { America, but they are contrijsut- ing to the solutions of the firob- | ‘ _ Hema of colored and colonial /peo- ‘ . . 1 iPles throughout the world-- ; also therefore to the world prob- “Jem of peace and progress. > *. . 7 - 1 \