Mao Zedong wrote very supportive of the Black Resistance movement in the USA. But what should be (or rather, 'should have been') our stance towards black nationalists, especially like Malcom X who called for the unity of black people and called for exclusion of 'white people'? Malcom X
This position is not inherent to the black resistance movement, In fact, the Maoist wing opposed it. I would quote Huey Newton himself but the format of this collection of his online writings won't let me. So I advise that you read his "A letter to the New Republic of Africa" in this collection to understand his position. I will quote it tommorow when I have the time. http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad...hueynewton.pdf
Maoists historically supported the need for organizational forms that are multinational, but also for forms that unite people of oppressed nationalities in their own organizations. (No one serious supported forming whites-only organizations.) The expulsion of white people from SNCC was a turning point of the "BLack Power" movement (because they expelled powerful liberal minders, and raised the banner of revolutionary Black nationalism). The Maoist movement supported this development -- not because working with whites was wrong, but because this was part of a larger process of radicalization. (Bob Zellner, a prominent southern Maoist, was one of the few whites not expelled from SNCC). At times Black workers formed caucuses that were open to Black people only. At times, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers handed out leaflets that were for Black workers only (i.e. they refused to give them to white workers) -- that was (imho) a strange choice... but it was a sign that at times there was a conscious effort to form Black people into a distinct core to wage the struggle against racism (in the workplace and society). Almost all of us (who became Maoists) were deeply influenced by Malcolm X -- his work and writings certainly changed my life. Maoists formed different kinds of organizations -- some based in oppressed nationalities, others consciously multinational from the beginning. (And meanwhile, Mao and the Maoists in China encouraged both kinds of organization, meeting with leaders of both, and promoting both in their Peking Review press.) The Panthers were a Black organization (with only a very few members of other nationalities). The Maoist pre-party formation Revolutionary Union was multinational. And the RU was largely formed by revolutionaries united in upholding and defending the Black Panther Party. The Black Workers Congress was a Maoist organization that was largely African American. The Young Lords Party (later Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization) was an organization of Puerto Rican communists. However that did not mean that these organizations supported independence as the central demand of African American people. Maoists did support independence as the central demand of Puerto Rican people (on the island of Puerto Rico). But in general, the idea on the mainland was a unitary socialist revolution based on a broad multinational movement (led by the advanced elements of the multinational working class) with a strong component of national liberation against racism (arising from among oppressed nationalities). In other words Maoists formed both nationality-based organizations and multinational organizations -- though all (in principle) were eventually working for a single multinational communist party, and for a common socialist revolutionary process. Maoists themselves are internationalist (not nationalist) in their ideology, but in the revolutionary struggle they ally with revolutionaries with different ideologies (including those revolutionaries who have various kinds of nationalism-of-the-oppressed.)
