Color Communism and Common Sense by Manning Johnson
This is the 2016 Camp Constitution edition with a foreword by Rev. Steve Craft. This was originally published in 1959. The author was a former member of the Communist Party but realized that the communists were racists and promoted race hatred. Manning Johnson was a Black former Communist who learned the truth about Communism and warned us about his experience. According to the author: "Ten years I labored in the cause of Communism. I was a dedicated ‘comrade’. All my talents and efforts were zealously used to bring about the triumph of Communism in America and throughout the world. To me, the end of capitalism would mark the beginning of an interminable period of plenty, peace, prosperity and universal comradeship. All racial and class differences and conflicts would end forever after the liquidation of the capitalists, their government and their supporters. Little did I realize until I was deeply enmeshed in the Red Conspiracy, that just and seeming grievances are exploited to transform idealism into a cold and ruthless weapon against the capitalist system-that this is the end toward which all the communist efforts among Negroes are directed. Indeed, I had entered the red conspiracy in the vain belief that it was the way to a ‘new, better and superior’ world system of society. Ten years later, thoroughly disillusioned, I abandoned communism."
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