Positive movement, albeit one that lacks the kind of substantive demands and organizational apparatus that would make it more than just a sort of disorganized opposition to the mass murder of black people in this country conducted daily by the occupying armies (i.e. the police) of Capital. The way forward for BLM is forging a revolutionary party that can coordinate the actions of the black proletariat (i.e. the driving force behind BLM, as opposed to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, which was certainly more petty-bourgeois in its character and general aims) with that of the whole proletariat for the kind of mass action that can overthrow the capitalist system from which modern race hatred arose.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but are you saying blacks should build their own party, rather than joining the CWI (or whichever group you're affiliated with)?
No. I'm saying that blacks should join with white workers to form a revolutionary party. The CWI is a social democratic outfit that I'm not affiliated with. I don't think that any of the pseudo-left outfits that make up the majority of 'the left' in the United States have the correct political perspective or any hope of becoming a vanguard party. We need to start from scratch.
Ah, my bad. I thought I remember you saying you were into the Sparts, maybe I have my internationals mixed up. Regardless, I'm really not partial to calls to professionalize some segment of a popular movement. That, IMO, just makes the movement easier to co-opt. It's the same reason why cops are always so eager to identify leaders at a protest, and will create leaders if there aren't any (for instance, by granting special privileges to self-appointed "negotiators").
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