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"Updated Edition with a New Introduction and Afterword Having just written his groundbreaking book, The American Revolution, Detroit autoworker James Boggs sat down in the early 1960s to continue his study of revolution. Boggs looked at the Black Power uprisings then beginning in the United States within the global context of the overthrow of rightwing puppet regimes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In Racism and the Class Struggle, Boggs produced thirteen powerful and prescient chapters that wrestled with topics such as the specific character of American capitalism and its intricate relationship to American democracy, the historic mission of the Black revolution in the United States, and the need for the 1960s Black movement to develop theoretically and organizationally. Boggs also hailed the coming of what was at the time the new slogan of the ""Black revolution"" with a momentous essay called ""Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come."" In other essays, he hammered at his theme of a ""second civil war"" and Black control of the cities. With conflicting U.S. forces so sharply polarized, wrote Boggs, ""No one can predict when or whether a revolution will succeed, but we do know that … there is no turning back until one or the other side is defeated."" Today, amid the metastasizing manifestations of ""white power,"" Racism and the Class Struggle is stunningly pertinent to people of all races who, in the struggle against Empire and white supremacy, will not turn back."

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Boggs, a Detroit auto worker and Black man, established his credentials with leftleaning youth when his The American Revolution appeared in 1963. His new book is heady, controversial writing-pungent polemical essays and speeches-which spells out forcefully his MarxistFanonist thesis that 'the issues of the black revolt are fundamentally rooted in the American system itself.' -Publishers' Weekly

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James Boggs (1919–1993) was an African American autoworker and radical activist raised in rural Alabama. His books include and The American Revolution and Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (with Grace Lee Boggs), both published by Monthly Review Press. The James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership was founded in 1995 in Detroit to carry on their work and honor their legacy.

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