Socialism and the American Negro

as I was reading this outstanding speech given in 1961 (transcribed by Smithsonian Folkways), I was struck by this line on DuBois' visit to China. As always, DuBois' words ring true across history and specifically, as we've entered into a new period of China emnity:"...with desperate determination China won its independence and drove the murderous traitor into the sea where he still squats on an island protected by our guns and money. We hate China. We propose never to forgive the Chinese . We count them outside humanity . We charge them with every crime we can invent."as ive seen in social media, people who scoff at the concept that China liberated a feudal slave society, and that this idea is sourced only to Parenti...well here is another source."I was on the borders of Tibet last year when China saved the Tibetian slaves and we shed crocodile tears . We have sympathy and money for the slave drivers who hold the Dalai Lama as prisoner. But for the prisoners in our own overcrowded jails who rebel each day and cry in vain for justice and mercy our only remedy is more jails."from W.E.B DuBois, Socialism and the American Negrohttps://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW05514.pdf via /r/communism https://ift.tt/2GSmGRT