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NY 100~18676 "decision for seif-determination, through integration, and would inevitably receive freedom tunder the exist- ing American system,' what need to mobilize and heighten the fight against white chauvinist ideology? What need to mobilize independent and militant struggle against the Hitlcr-like discriminatory practices (including social exclusion) which still beset the Negro people, despite important gains registered especially during the last twelve years? "BROWDER'S harmful analysis led of necessity to the strengthening of bourgeois nationalism among the Negro people and to an undue reliance on Negro re- Fanmiat andanahiIn a A dl 2 VOW Silt e "Instead of fully utilizing the potential of an anti-fascist war of national liberation, which, as BROWDER correctly statos, fired the political maturity of the Negro people, to root out determinedly the white chauvinist prejudices among the American people (and among new sectionsof our own membership), we did not take that initiative. "That Negro comrades accepted BROWDER'S oppor- tunist thesis makes the error all the more grave, be- cause in effect we accepted the false and bankrupt logic of reformism as a solution to the problems of the Negro people. Not only that, we accepted a tless than equait status for the Negro people for 'generations to come! - something ‘approximating equality.' "Only by sharply dealing with this major ques- tion shall we be able to overcome the sertous errors of this period and fully oxplain to the Negro people and the white working class the source of our errors. This, too, is the way to guarantee continued cnlistment of the strength and organic support of the Negro peoples to the common goal. 7 "TI have one proposal, which I believe to be Hae practical and necessary, to recommend to the National ies