This week’s reading is the first half of “Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head” by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin.

The article is available online here:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-authoritarian-leftists

[This Week]

Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head

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I. A fundamentally incorrect analysis of the role of the white left in the last thirty years of civil rights to Black liberation struggle...

4:14

II. The white left’s concept of “the vanguard party”...

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[Next Week]

III. Zero (0) support of non-white left factions by the white left.

IV. Bourgeois pseudo-analysis of race and class.

V. The bottom line is this: Self-determination!

Post Reading Discussion

The Further Reading list from the end of the article

“Black Autonomy, A Newspaper of Anarchism and Black Revolution” Vol. #1, issues #1-#5; Vol. #2, issues #1-#3. 1994–1996.

Bookchin, Murray “Post-Scarcity Anarchism” Ramparts Press, 1971.

Ervin, Lorenzo Kom’boa “Anarchism and the Black Revolution and Other Essays” Monkeywrench Press, 1994

Jackson, Greg “Mythology of A White-Led ‘Vanguard’: A Critical Look at the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA” Black Autonomy staff, 1996.

Mohammed, Kimathi “Organization and Spontaneity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and its Application to the Black Movement in the US Today” Marcus Garvey Institute, 1974.

Sakai, J. “Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat”

Zhenhua, Zhai “Red Flower of China” Soho Press, 1992.

Zinn, Howard “A People’s History of the United States” Harper- Perrenial, Revised 1995.