Tag: Cold War Ideology

By Michael Hancock | Commentary, Michael Hancock’s Undercurrent How the Communist International weaponized race — and why its echoes still divide us today. In October 1928, the Communist International — the Moscow-based command center for global revolution — issued an extraordinary directive. Buried in the archives of the Political Secretariat of the Communist International, the document was titled “Resolution on the Negro Question in the United States.” It did not read like a humanitarian plea to end racial injustice. It read like a military plan. It declared: “The Negro working class has reached a stage of development which enables it, if properly organized and well led, to fulfill successfully its double historical mission: to play a considerable role in the class struggle ...