The contemporary Marxists' credo these days is based upon historically incorrect perceptions of American society and consequently affords no historically or experientially derived methods for us. Their belief in the inherent integrity of the working class is contradictory to our history in America. Futhermore, the current critiques of Pan-Africanism and nationalism by black Marxists are simplistic formulas derived from the 1860s. In an attempt to attack African cultural, political, and economic unity at home and abroad they have seriously distorted the political configuration of contemporary society and failed to account for the historically correct analyses of leading national theoreticians. Systematic nationalists as opposed to naive nationalists have always considered Pan-Africanism without socialism to be self-defeating because otherwise the exploitation of the people would simply continue at the hands of black exploiters. Thus, exploitation in any form by any type of economic order is vehemently denounced. What is disturbing, however, is that the Marxists believe that in order to achieve cultural and political solidarity among black people there has to be complete unification of the world's working classes. Not only is this a naive Marxist view, it is a view which has been roundly criticized for its inaccuracies. At least, nationalists have
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