September 12, 2020
For the Left, Blacks are Once Again ‘Raw Material for Revolution’
By
Joel Gilbert
Pitting one race or one ethnic group against another is a game the Left has been playing for a very long time. In my 2014 documentary film,
There’s No Place Like Utopia, I explored the rarely told history of Leftist exploitation of race and ethnicity, a practice that dates back to the 1930's.
Soviet leader Josef Stalin focused his American propaganda efforts not on fomenting a workers’ revolution - unlikely given America’s free market history - but on discrediting the very idea of America both to its own citizens and the world. The Soviets decided the easiest way to discredit America was through racial division. The Soviet involvement began in 1932, after nine young black Americans were accused of raping two white women on a freight train in Alabama. Even before most Americans had heard of the so-called “Scottsboro Boys,” even before their guilt or innocence was determined, the Soviet Union’s most famous propaganda artist had created a poster, “Freedom to the Prisoners of Scottsboro!”
The Soviets instructed their international apparatus, the COMINTERN, to employ its legal arm called "International Labor Defense," to push the NAACP aside and defend the young men, much as BLM has pushed the NAACP away today. In his book
Black Bolshevik, party regular Harry Haywood proudly owned up to the strong-arm Communist tactics in Alabama.
“Scottsboro represented our first serious challenge to recognized Black reformist leadership,” wrote Haygood. For the Soviets and their Leftist American allies, the Scottsboro boys provided a field of battle. If the Communists were to seize that field, liberal black reformers had to be eliminated. “It was necessary to struggle on two fronts,” Haywood wrote, “for both deviated from the line of proletarian internationalism.”
The case of the Scottsboro boys dragged on for years, and Communist Party USA exploited the young men at every turn. For the COMINTERN the goal was not justice for the "boys" or racial equality. The goal was disruption and revolution.
Some American blacks bought into the idea of socialism. They became known as "Black Bolsheviks." Hoping to embarrass the United States during the Depression, the Soviets lured many to the Soviet Union. Prominent among the Black Bolsheviks was an activist named Lovett Fort-Whiteman. In fact, the then conservative
Time magazine called Fort-Whiteman “the reddest of the blacks.” A true believer in Communism and a willing propagandist, Fort-Whiteman proved to be a highly successful recruiter as well. Thousands of black Americans flocked to the Soviet Union during the Depression, Fort-Whiteman among them.
Unbeknownst to them, Communists viewed American blacks as “the raw material for revolution” according to former KGB spy Konstantin Preobrazhensky. In this regards, Fort-Whiteman served as something of a prototype. The Left would use African Americans like Fort-Whiteman for their propaganda value and dispense with them when that value was exhausted. In the Soviet Union, that value was short-lived.
The Black Bolsheviks in Russia proved to be too Americanized to yield to the mindless brutality of the Soviet regime. In time, Stalin did with them what he did with other troublesome minorities. He eliminated them. In 1938, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the reddest of the blacks, was dispatched to the notorious Kolyma Gulag in Siberia, and he was dead within a year. No black American survived to tell the tale of the purge by the Communists that killed Fort-Whiteman and uncounted other “Black Bolsheviks.”
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