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...Hessler's statement that we view the Negro as being "an incidental victim of the same capitalist power which crushes the Viet Cong...
...Incidental" was also an unfortunate word. I used it to indicate priorities. Your "Intellectual framework" seems to be Marxist-Maoist. From this point of view, social oppression is a phenomenon of certain types of economic organization (Feudal, Capitalist, etc.). To see racial discrimination as a category of economic oppression is to consider the Negro as an "incidental" victim of a system which cuts a far wider swath. This kind of thinking has typified the attitude of American Marxists for many years (see Richard Wright's introduction to Black Metropolis). Most SDS members, conversely, construe American "imperialism" as an outgrowth...
...chosen foreign policy as its battle grounds. SDS too abhors the Viet Nam war, but eschews Leninist formulations in favor of sentimental, if telling, analogies between the Asian peasant and the Mississippi sharecropper. M2M reverses the analogy, viewing the Negro as an incidental victim of the same capitalist power which crushes the Viet Cong. The difference is crucial in theory and could become so in practice...
Despite Peking's eagerness to see India take a shellacking, the war hardly fits China's devoutly held Leninist belief in an inevitable clash between Com munism and the "capitalist-imperialist" West. Here were two former colonial states, both Asian and both underdeveloped, at each other's throats. Yet Communist China tirelessly reiterates that it is precisely such nations-the "have nots" of Asia, Africa and Latin America-that must eventually encircle the West and destroy it in a worldwide holocaust of "people's wars." Time and again, Peking has shown its readiness to provoke such...
...Suyin herself, she prefers to live in capitalist Singapore...