Black Autonomist Issue Traditional/Conventional Pan-Africanism(DuBoisian, e.g., 7th PAC) Black Power Pan-Africanism/ Black Redemptionism (Neo-Garveyite)
Black Comprador 4. Black Power Anti-Black Power; implicitly committed to White Power through the liberal universalist status quo Anti-Black Power; implicitly committed to White Power via a white-led, universalist, proletarian movement
Black Autonomist 4. Black Power Not its focus; satisfied with formal racial equality between individuals, even as a frosty favor from White Power, and even without the Black Power that is needed to anchor and guarantee that individualist equality Sees Black Power as the key to everything else: holds that Blacks, wherever they are, must secure enough power to protect and advance their group interests; there is White Power in the world, why not Black Power too?
Black Comprador 5. Black World Collective Security Opposed: sees it as anti-globalist, and as a case of race consciousness and “identity politics” Opposed: sees it as divisive of the global proletariat, and as a case of race consciousness and “identity politics”
Black Autonomist 5. Black World Collective Security Not within its field of concepts, Nkrumah’s African High Command being the nearest it has come to this Black Power idea Advocates it as a cardinal objective, advocates the idea of the African High Command as its logical and strategic agency.
Black Comprador 6. Industrialization, Development or Maldevelopment ? Espouses development, but quite happy with maldevelopment, i.e., the development only of consumerism and without a foundation of industrialization Espouses development, but content with maldevelopment; not keen to face the challenges and rigors of industrialization
Black Autonomist Espouses development, but content with maldevelopment, provided there is the prospect of racial equality in consumerism; not keen to face the challenges and rigors of industrialization, since its focus is not on Black Power Espouses industrialization so as to provide the economic foundation for Black Power; not for “development”, which it rejects as Orwellian doublespeak for maldevelopment
Black Comprador 7. Black nuclear bomb Opposed, for it would threaten the imperialist masters Opposed, for it would be in the hands of some black bourgeois state, and not the proletariat
Black Autonomist In support, on the grounds of racial equality Demands it as the substance and symbol of Black Power on the global arena; sees the making thereof as a Black Redemptionist duty
Black Comprador 8. Imperialism Claims it is a thing of the past Opposed to it
Black Autonomist Opposed to it Opposed to it
Black Comprador 9. Globalization Enthusiastic about it, as it would enhance the power of the global masters and the benefits to compradors Opposed, because of its predictable adverse impact on the proletariat
Black Autonomist Welcomes it; since the globalization rhetoric , which it accepts at face value, contains no hint of racial discrimination in the distribution of the gains and losses Unacceptable: sees it as the slogan for a new edition of imperialism based on globalized American hegemony, and as profoundly anti-Black
Black Comprador 10. UN system, including a Security Council with no black veto member Sees it as the best thing on earth, as humanity’s only hope for peace and security ?
Black Autonomist Accepts the UN’s anti-racism rhetoric at face value; therefore sees the UN as good for Africans Sees it as an imperialist tool; wants it reformed in the Black World interest or abolished
Black Comprador 11. UN War Crimes Tribunals or Crime-Against-Black-Humanity Tribunals Welcomes UN Tribunals as a weapon to deter or punish any local armed challengers of comprador power and privilege. Would be opposed to Crime-Against-Black-Humanity Tribunals, since the indicted would be the white masssa and his black agents Recognizes UN Tribunals as an imperialist and racist tool for cowing the militant opposition to local imperialist agents. Might oppose Crime-Against-Black-Humanity Tribunals since the indicted would include whites
Black Autonomist Welcomes UN Tribunals, in so far as there is no apparent racial discrimination, given that there is now one for black Rwanda and another for white Yugoslavia . Might equivocate on Crime-Against-Black-Humanity Tribunals on Desmond Tutuist grounds of Christian forgiveness , and settle for “Truth Commissions” which are set up to pardon, not to punish, whites for their crimes against Blacks Opposed to UN Tribunals: recognizes them as imperialist kangaroo courts for punishing defeated rebels who engaged in armed resistance to imperialist diktats. Would advocate and institute Crime-Against-Black-Humanity Tribunals, following the example of Dessalines who hanged for their crimes the White soldiers that Napoleon had sent to re-enslave the Haitians.
Black Comprador 12. Recolonization Welcomes and even invites it, so as to strengthen the internal position of the compradors within the Black World Opposed to it on the basis of anti-imperialism
Black Autonomist Opposed to it on the principle of anti-colonialism Vehemently opposed: for it would return Blacks to forced labor, slavery, whipping and other humiliations, and even open the way to their extermination
Black Comprador 13. The IMF-World Bank-WTO system Welcomes it as the supervisor of a global system from which compradors derive juicy personal pickings Opposes it on anti-imperialist grounds
Black Autonomist Opposed: faults the discriminatory pattern of its operations, which inflict poverty on the poor countries (mostly non-white) and brings prosperity to the strong countries (mostly white) Opposes it: Recognizes it as the supervisory trinity of economic imperialism, and as designed for the impoverishment of the Black World and others
Black Comprador 14. Transnational privatization Welcomes it as the provider of foreign buttresses to the local economic position of the compradors Opposes it on anti-imperialist grounds
Black Autonomist Opposed to it for strengthening economic imperialism Opposed: recognizes it as foreignization and as a move to restore imperialist economic control and domination to pre-independence levels
Black Comprador 15. Reparations to the Black World for the crimes of imperialism Opposed: views it as an issue of the past, an issue not relevant to the present; seeks, thereby, to protect the white masters’ loot. Also opposed because accepts the imperialist propaganda that it rescued the Blacks from primitivism and barbarism, and brought them the benefit of civilization. In support, out of basic anti-imperialist considerations
Black Autonomist
For reparations to diaspora and homeland Africans, especially given a tradition of reparations to Jews, Japanese Americans, Inuits and other non-Black peoples. Sees its denial as racially discriminatory.
Champions reparations to the Black World as a matter of justice, and as a precondition for peace and reconciliation between Blacks and Whites