In the case of Scottsboro, the goal was not only to attract black Americans to the Communist Party - and liberals, various fellow travelers, and social-justice warriors - but above all to portray the United States as an inherently racist nation where cases like Scottsboro are the systemic norm.
Titled "The American Negro in the Communist Party," the report delineated decades of attempts by the Soviet Comintern and Communist Party USA to try to recruit African Americans.
In 1922, the Comintern approved a fat $300,000 subsidy to the American Communist Party for purposes of propaganda among black Americans.
In 1925, the Comintern selected a small group of 12 black American communists to come to Moscow for training.
The report found no evidence that Communist Party USA and its Moscow masters had generated a mass swell of black Americans.
"Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things," wrote Marx and Engels at the close of the Communist Manifesto.
For Black Lives Matter, that's a wide-ranging panoply of revolutionary change that goes way beyond George Floyd or even black issues.
Titled "The American Negro in the Communist Party," the report delineated decades of attempts by the Soviet Comintern and Communist Party USA to try to recruit African Americans.
In 1922, the Comintern approved a fat $300,000 subsidy to the American Communist Party for purposes of propaganda among black Americans.
In 1925, the Comintern selected a small group of 12 black American communists to come to Moscow for training.
The report found no evidence that Communist Party USA and its Moscow masters had generated a mass swell of black Americans.
"Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things," wrote Marx and Engels at the close of the Communist Manifesto.
For Black Lives Matter, that's a wide-ranging panoply of revolutionary change that goes way beyond George Floyd or even black issues.
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