1. Marxists and Communists in the U.S after WWI defined the question of African American Liberation (then called “Negro Liberation”) as

c. central to the liberation of the working class as a whole and the establishment of socialism.

2. Which of the following is a central principle that Communists have developed over the last century, in both the CPUSA and the larger working-class movement?

b. It is the duty of white Communists to fight all manifestations of racism in the CPUSA and of white workers to fight all manifestations of racism in the ranks of the working class.

3. Applying Marxism directly to its analysis, the CPUSA sees racism under capitalism as which of the following?

a. A means to create extra profits for capitalists, by both paying African American workers less and playing African American workers off against white workers, thus reducing wage and salary rates.

4. W. E. B. Du Bois, the world-famous African American revolutionary scholar and intellectual and Communist, in his classic work Black Reconstruction, argued that

a. a united front between former slaves and poor whites was in the process of development.
b. the KKK and similar groups were in essence a Confederate “counter-revolution” against these developments.
c. the failure to break up the great plantations and redistribute the land to the former slaves, advocated by Thad Stevens and other radical Republicans, was the most important cause of the defeat of reconstruction as a revolutionary democratic process.
d. All of the above

5. Although mainstream, aka capitalist, media ignore Martin Luther King’s doctrine of “positive peace” and see him as a champion of nonviolence, serious students increasingly see the concept of “positive peace” as

a. a concept of peace based on economic and social justice influenced by the world socialist movement.