Marxism Basics
This thinker developed the theory of Marxism
Who is Karl Marx?
Hosea Hudson was a black worker living under this segregation system
What is Jim Crow?
This political party was significantly tied to the labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s.
What is the Communist Party?
Claudia Jones focused on the struggles of this specific group.
Who are Black women?
Oppression/discrimination based off of skin color.
What is racism?
Marxism argues that society is divided into these two main classes
Hudson joined this political party because it supported black workers
What is the communist party?
The disparity in the maternal mortality rate for black women compared to white women (number).
What is 3x the rate?
Jones believed Black women faced oppression based on race, class, and this third factor.
What is gender?
Oppression based on economic position.
What is classism?
Marx believed workers are exploited because they do not own this.
What are the means of production?
Hudson believed communism addressed both racial oppression and what other type of oppression
What time of worker is unprotected by union standards?
What is the domestic worker?
Jones argued that improving the conditions of Black women would strengthen this larger movement.
What is the working class/communist/anti-imperialist movement?
Oppression based on gender.
What is sexism?
Hudsons experiences show how black workers were excluded from these types of organizations
The median earnings for non-white women workers (mainly Black women).
What is (less than) $500 a year?
The Communist Party in the U.S. actively organized among this group.
Who are workers/laborers?
The idea that race, class, and gender overlap to cause unique systems of discrimination and/or privilege.
What is intersectionality?
This concept describes workers being separated from the value of their labor.
What is alienation?
Hudsons story demonstrates how communism appealed to southerners, black southerners, who seeked what?
What is dignity and equality? (liberation)
The presidential administration Claudia Jones criticizes in her essay “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”
What is the Truman administration?
Both Hudson and Jones show that liberation requires addressing more than just this single issue.
What is class alone?
The appeal of communism for many Black activists was its promise of both economic justice and this.
What is racial equality?