The importance of enslaved people in the fight against slavery was a major component of the anti-slavery fight. If you think about the most important struggles during this period, it was precisely enslaved workers who led it: take the fight against French colonialism in Haiti.
In the U.S. there were the struggles led by Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman. The labor movements in the 19th century recognized this. For example Marx and Engels spoke of it in the Manifesto and many free workers spoke of their conditions as wage slavery.
Marx himself never spoke of slavery as an analogy. Marx said, “Direct slavery is just as much a pivot of bourgois industry as machinery.”
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The Communist Party USA is a revolutionary working-class political party founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.
The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.
But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit — socialism.
We are rooted in our country's revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.
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