Why did he become a Commie? He admitted throughout is life that he saw Stalin as a tyrant, he saw all the progress the NAACP was able to make despite being under a Capitalist government, and he had every reason not to be a Communist because he was constantly drawing the ire from the Feds and his fellow Civil Rights Activists who wanted to distance him from the organization he founded. He even ended up retiring to a non-commie country. It just didn't make any sense. Did he not realize the damage he was doing to his own cause by dying on this hill?
>>18604117That is the weird thing about the global south and a lot of nonwhite people. For a lot of people in, say, africa, naming your child after Stalin is just a thing some people do. I guess hate breeds hate.Even dr. King eventually developed democratic socialist sympathies, and he was very much NOT a fan of the Soviet union.
His assertion that Capitalism leads to Racism also never made sense to me either because I'm pretty sure both Chuds and Tankies make the opposite claim, that Capitalism leads to the death of ethno-nationalism because capitalists will seek to broaden their market to maximize profit
Du Bois was a retardSimple as
>>18604190Do you think he still would've been a Zionist had he realized most of those Jews were just Eastern Europeans LARPing as Levantines?
>>18604149both are trueracism is used to stoke division among workers, but capitalism also demands intercontinental migration. It's not necessary or viable when everyone is the same race.
>>18604117He saw dead blacks being sold for meat in grocery stores in Atlanta.
>>18604117Because the USSR showed extremely impressive results at first. There was no way of knowing in say 1950 or 1960 that it would collapse under the weight of its global empire.
