Black Bolshevik Quotes

“The result was the resolution on the South African question which La Guma, Nasanov and I had worked on the previous winter. It recommended that the Party put forward and work for an independent Native South African Republic with full and equal rights for all races as a stage toward a Workers and Peasants Republic. This was to be accompanied by the slogan "Return the land to the Natives." The resolution was not only rejected by the Party leadership, but they had now sent a lily-white delegation to the congress to fight for its repeal.”
― Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an African American Communist

“As did most of the white leading cadre, Bunting exhibited a paternalism with respect to the Natives. This paternalism was rooted in an abiding lack of faith in the revolutionary potential of the Native movement. They saw the South African revolution in terms of the direct struggle for socialism. This white leadership, brought up in the old socialist traditions and comprised mainly of European immigrants, had not yet absorbed Lenin's teachings on the national and colonial questions.”
― Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an African American Communist