This week’s reading is the second 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

Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head

[Last Week]

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

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

[This Week]

III. Zero (0) support of non-white left factions by the white left. - 01:31

IV. Bourgeois pseudo-analysis of race and class. - 05:20

V. The bottom line is this: Self-determination! - 23:17

Post Reading Discussion - 26:26

Footnotes:

1 – 13:35

Zinn, pg.90

2 – 14:39

Zinn, pg.222

3 – 15:43

Zinn

4 – 26:22

Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael), Black Power; Vintage Press, 1965.

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.