Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism and Self Determination

Racism & Civil Rights

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Do Blacks in the United States have the right to self-determination? Should all workers support this right? Does that mean advocating a separate state for Blacks? Are Blacks exploited only as workers or are they doubly exploited--as Blacks and as workers?

In the 1930s socialists in the United States discussed these questions with exiled Soviet revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's views were founded on the rich experiences of the Bolshevik Party of V.I. Lenin in leading the Russian revolution and the Communist International in its early years.

Trotsky unhesitatingly championed the demand for Black self-determination. He urged working-class fighters in the United States to do the same and to increase their efforts in the fight against racial discrimination.

About the author

Leon Trotsky was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new dictatorial regime. Vilified and isolated, he fought an uncompromising battle with the Stalinist bureaucracy, defending the revolutionary and internationalist principles upon which the revolution was based. In 1940, he was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist regime.

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