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Hat tip to Richard Seymour on this article that shows now the
Workingman's Party in California combined anticapitalist and racist
ideology.
http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/18/pastj.gtu030.full.pdf
I first encountered the reactionary elements of a "workerist"
interpretation of Marxism in an article I wrote about Timothy
Messer-Kruse's "The Yankee International: 1848-1876":
Dogmatic Marxism's hostility toward "non-class" demands has been around
for a very long time, judging from the evidence of Timothy
Messer-Kruse's "The Yankee International: 1848-1876." (U. of North
Carolina, 1998) Furthermore, you are left with the disturbing conclusion
that this problem existed at the very highest levels of the first
Communist International, and included Marx himself.
The people who launched a section of the Communist International in the
USA were veteran radicals, who had fought against slavery and for
women's rights for many years. They saw the emerging anti-capitalist
struggles in Europe, most especially the Paris Commune of 1871, as
consistent with their own. They saw revolutionary socialism as the best
way to guarantee the success of the broader democratic movement. What
European Marxism would think of them is an entirely different matter.
full: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/woodhull.htm
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