Communists officially scorned such efforts, as they had scorned Randolph for decades. In the prevailing Marxist jargon, as laid down from Moscow, integration was a “revisionist” pursuit based on the false hope of progress without world revolution. Moreover, the ideal of integration contradicted the official Moscow goal of “separate national development” for American Negroes, modeled on the Soviet republics. This arcane line made for private Communist derision toward the Brown decision and the Montgomery bus boycott, but it also isolated the party from the aspirations of most American Negroes.
