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Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism Paperback – February 5, 2021

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This book is about the historic relationship between two great revolutionary struggles: the struggle for Black Liberation and the struggle for socialism in the United States. Published by Freedom Road Socialist Organization - frso.org. About the Author: Frank Chapman is a community organizer, Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Field Organizer of the Chicago Alliance Against Political Repression, and part of the Central Committee of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. He is also a published writer, with articles on Truthout and Freedomways. In 2019, Frank published his first book, a memoir entitled The Damned Don't Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer.

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February 5, 2021
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0578855453
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Publisher : Freedom Road Socialist Organization (February 5, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN-10 : 0578855453
ISBN-13 : 978-0578855455
Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.41 x 9 inches

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J Sykes

Dialectical and Historical Materialism hard at work

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2021

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Frank Chapman's new book is an excellent dialectical and historical materialist analysis of the importance of the strategic alliance between the working class and the movement of oppressed nationalities, in particular, the black liberation movement, in the struggle for socialist revolution in the United States. He takes us through the history of this strategic alliance, drawing important lessons for those who are interested in struggling today to build a just future. Everyone who believes Black Lives Matter and is interested in today's struggle for a just tomorrow should read Chapman's important book.

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Without exaggeration, one of the most important books about socialism in the last 30 years

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2021

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In the most readable of terms, Frank Chapman’s ‘Marxist Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism’ argues for approaching the oppression of Black people in the United States as a national question. This approach, which governed the understudied but historically groundbreaking work conducted by the Communist Party from the 1930s to the mid-50s, is distinct from quite literally every other left-wing book on Black liberation we’ve seen in the last decade. It’s also a breath of fresh air from the torturous attempts by middle-class progressives to navigate between ‘class’ and ‘race’ that’s marked social-democratic circles since 2016. In very lucid terms, Chapman examines the history of the Black freedom struggle and the socialist movement in the U.S. and draws conclusions from a scientific, materialist look at the system of monopoly capitalism we live under today.

Chapman’s presentation echoes and draws from other important Marxist work on the subject, like Harry Haywood’s two books and James Allen’s ‘The Negro Question in the United States’. But his book isn’t a summary of their writings either. Weighing in at just under 200 pages, Chapman’s book breaks new ground and makes a number of unique contributions, two of which are worth highlighting here:

1. The book argues - successfully too - that the Black freedom struggle has taken the form of a national question from its earliest moments. In other words, it’s intrinsically part of the movement of Black people throughout history to gain freedom. Chapman answers a long-standing but historically bogus liberal critique—popular in many social-democratic circles too—that the national question was imposed as a rigid, dogmatic formula by the Comintern in the late-20s; not an organic demand of Black people themselves. In tracing the history of the movement through figures like Martin Delaney, Chapman traces the emergence of national consciousness in Black people long before workers hoisted the red flag over Moscow. Ideas, in Chapman’s book, are not retrofitted to material reality. They emerge from a careful study of social and economic conditions.

2. Chapman argues that the movement for socialism and the Black freedom struggle are distinct but united in objective shared interests. Perhaps the most interesting historical point he draws out is his discussion of Black Reconstruction and the Paris Commune—two revolutionary upheavals that happened concurrently but seldom evoke memory of the other. In fact, Chapman was the first person I had ever heard make such a comparison (in a speech some 5-7 years ago). In exploring the analogy, he makes the point that these processes were both revolutionary and unique—Reconstruction as a struggle over democracy in the South and the Paris Commune as a struggle for working class power (socialism). Chapman examines the objective conditions under monopoly capitalism and sees the future for both movements as tied together. This is different from grafting each other’s demands onto the program of the other. It’s a natural conclusion drawn from seeing the condition of African Americans as a national question, which encompasses many classes but can only break the chains of oppression once and for all when led by the Black working class. The book explores the historical form that this unity of the two movements has taken, at its worst and its best.

Chapman’s book is a very necessary entry into the debate around the direction of both movements in the U.S. today. It’s very clear on what it argues and what it doesn’t. For instance, those hoping for a demographic, geographic and economic look at the Black Belt South today will have to wait for another book. I think the book also opens the door for another historical look, using the same framework, of the period after World War II, which even Haywood didn’t write about in much detail. In all, Chapman has made an indelible mark on the socialist movement and the Black freedom struggle with this work. Pick up a copy.

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Concise but thorough lessons about history and theory on every page

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2021

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This book covers segments of Black history that are too often glossed over in other historical books and connects events and movements in a very clear way. My favorite thing about the book is that it's not just about Black suffering or interesting historical facts, but it contains calls to action and a strategy for actually fighting against white supremacy and capitalism. You can tell from reading it that Frank is deeply involved in the Black liberation movement and I'm recommending it to anyone who will listen so they can get involved as well.

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Vincent Olson

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Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2021

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This is a comprehensive look at not only the basic elements of Marxism and Marxism Leninism but how they relate to black liberation. Frank Chapman successfully presents complex and dense source material in a way that not only puts the subject of the book in clear conversation with some of the most revered Marxists theorists, historians, and revolutionaries but also presents the information in a way that makes it clear and understandable to a contemporary, non-academic, audience. This is a very eloquent book. I haven't been able to put it down since it arrived. I highly recommend it.

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G. Montero

Read Frank Chapman's excellent book to understand why Black liberation is at the heart of socialism!

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2021

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This book demonstrates why the Black liberation struggle is part of the essence of Marxism and why these two revolutionary struggles cannot be separated if victory is to be achieved. The writing is magisterial! Chapman guides the reader through dense topics with ease, proceeding with the authority of a practitioner who has used the science of Marxism-Leninism in everyday struggle. The result is a powerful display of the historical materialist method that outlines how the development of capitalism in the United States has conditioned and been conditioned by the struggle between the Black liberation movement and the oppression of Black people. Understanding this history – up to the present day George Floyd/Breonna Taylor Rebellion – illuminates concrete tactical opportunities to advance the strategic alliance between the nationally oppressed and those struggling for socialism. Written by someone who embodies the Marxist-Leninist method of uniting theory and practice, Chapman’s book discusses not only where we’ve been, but why we need to keep the national question at the heart of united struggle.

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