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[Anonymous No.21657815]

>be intellectual black man in the 1930’s
>whites won’t accept you because “you’re a nigger”
>blacks won’t accept you because “you’re an Oreo”
>finally find acceptance in the communist party
>try to push for class consciousness but they keep sabotaging and the men just want you to have sex with their wives because it would be so radical and communist
>leave in disgust

Confusing desu

[Anonymous No.21657833]

>>21657815
I’ve heard many times that story of young writers wanting to join a commie group only to end up disillusioned with how retarded and disorganized commies are. They seem incredibly restrictive.

[Anonymous No.21657834]

>>21657815
this doesn't happen if you go back to africa

[Anonymous No.21657854]

>>21657833
That’s how the book portrays them. Any time the narrator wants to do anything constructive they say no, no, and make approval complicated and postpone it indefinitely while coming up with pointless side quests

[Anonymous No.21657859]

>>21657834
only after you go back to england or whatever you slithered out of

[Anonymous No.21657902]

>>21657854
Kek sounds exactly like a commie group

[Anonymous No.21657912]

>>21657833
especially the fact they aren't fighting for communism.
when will the little light go on in people's heads?

[Anonymous No.21657949]

>>21657815
what a bunch of fags. this is why black should stop falling for the left wing psyop. the best thing for them to do is become like Furious Styles.

[Anonymous No.21657995]

>>21657859
now kiss you faggots

[Anonymous No.21657996]

>>21657859
this isn't having the effect you think it is

[Anonymous No.21658010]

>>21657996
cope

[Anonymous No.21658306]

>>21658010
its not a cope, a lot of white Americans unironically do want to go back to being europoors

[Anonymous No.21658332]

>>21658306
Kek. Do they realize how high the cost of life is over there? And hate speech laws are way tighter in England, you could unironically get the cops called on you for saying the N word. Yes, please do go back to England.

[Anonymous No.21658406]

>>21658332
yeah I dont get it either

[Anonymous No.21658457]

I just finished Iceberg Slim's memoir and was shocked by how life in the 1930's could be so dirty. I guess I imagined everything was classier back then including the gangsters. The book you posted sounds like it's about someone who is the polar opposite of Iceberg, so I'm going to read it too.. it's weird to realize that anti-intellectualism was already ingrained in the African American community even back then.

[Anonymous No.21658464]

>>21657815
Sounds like a great and lonely struggle.

[Anonymous No.21659838]

>>21658457
Higher education was not available for most black people unless they went to an all-black college due to patronage form wealthy white people, which is originally what the narrator does until he is expelled

[Anonymous No.21660495]

>>21657834
Go back to Europe and I'll think about it, squatter.

[Anonymous No.21660499]

>>21657815
Brutal. Sounds manly af.

[Anonymous No.21660569]

>>21657859
This argument has never made sense to me. America was conquered, settled, and built entirely by whites. It’s a white nation (with a significant black underclass). Why would Americans “go back to Europe” when they came and developed it themselves?

[Anonymous No.21660588]

>>21657815
I've heard this book described to me once as basically My Twisted World but from the perspective of a black incel.

[Anonymous No.21660668]

>>21660569
> Why would Americans “go back to Europe”
Because it’s not their land. You can only reclaim your native land, i.e. blood and soil. It’s ridiculous to tell someone to go back to where his people came from when you’re also not from the land. And it wasn’t “white people” who founded it, it was the Brits in specific. Black Americans who descended from slaves are frankly more American than descendants of early 20th c immigrants like some Italians, Poles, or Jews.

[Anonymous No.21660831]

>>21658332
well, maybe they should destroy the economy and get rid of the government then. its not that hard.

[Anonymous No.21660933]

>>21660588
That is a very inaccurate characterization since the narrator rather finds it repugnant that white communist women are really into him and want to have sex with him, he sees it as them trying to play out their fantasies of being “raped by King Kong”. This is part of his disillusionment with women’s rights activism by communists, originally feeling accepted and loved by them, he realizes he is just a fetish for leftist women because he is black, and that makes him feel just as dehumanized as actual racists do

[Anonymous No.21660953]

>>21657996
Come back to bed, little lady

[Anonymous No.21661265]

>>21660933
They way I heard it described implied that a lot of that was just in the narrator's head and him projecting his fantasies on reality rather than things actually being like that. Wishful thinking.

[Anonymous No.21661294]

>>21657815
Wait. Hold up just a second. Is this real? They had Oreos in the 1930s?

[Anonymous No.21661303]

>>21661265
Seems like a silly interpretation since it plays a major part in his disillusionment with the party

>>21661294
Well the literal term isn’t used but black nationalists do try to kill the narrator since they see him as a kiss-ass to white people and trying to act in a way to impress

[Anonymous No.21661307]

>>21660668
how are black americans that are descended from slaves any more american than the native indian american tribes?

[Anonymous No.21661311]

>>21661307
He said more than 20c immigrants, not native Americans. But there are very few pure blood natives whose ancestry goes back 100% two hundred years in America, whereas many black people have ancestry that goes 100% back 200 years or more in America

[Anonymous No.21661314]

>>21657833
That's because communism is an idea that appeals to naive, hot-headed young people and they aren't the kind of people to do disciplined work. They wanna have fun and fuck, and any rebellious activity is erotically charged. Most guys in the 1968 protests just wanted to get laid.
Now, if you have leadership qualities and are able to direct those masses, you've got it made and can become commie dictator.

[Anonymous No.21661352]

The first half of pic related was about the dire working and living conditions in a industrial town in Northern England.

The second half of the book is a 100 page long rant about the absolute state of the British Socialist Movement. Mainly complaints about how it’s overrun by vegetarians, nudists and other proto trannies and middle class ‘intellectuals’ who have never worked a day in their lives.
Published in 1937

[Anonymous No.21661375]

>>21661314
Young people are the doers.
It's the 30+ scum that call cuckoldry a "polycule"

[Anonymous No.21661391]

>>21661352
>Published in 1937

Could really have been published at any point in the last 100 years desu. Commies are just bourgeoisie with an inferiority complex.