Leftist Reading: Authoritarian Leftists, Part 2

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-leftistsAuthoritarian 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. - 05:20V. The bottom line is this: Self-determination! - 23:17Post Reading Discussion - 26:26Footnotes:1 – 13:35Zinn, pg.90 2 – 14:39Zinn, pg.2223 – 15:43Zinn4 – 26:22Kwame 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, 1994Jackson, 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.