I finished reading Richard Wright's EXCELLENT classic " Black Boy " yesterday. Air head WOKE reviews of the book leave out a little something called CLASS STRUGGLE perspective. Richard Wright thought he had found a refuge from odious WHITE SUPREMACY in the American Communist Party. But that party- which did reject ugly racism - was already corrupted by the Stalinist tyranny. The young Wright was still branded - despite POVERTY- as a dangerous INTELLECTUAL. Even today what is left of the MARXIST Left hardly respects the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. Nor the concept of religious freedom. From the beginning the Soviet Union was " officially atheist " . My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker " . Way back in 1965 Malcolm X made a connection between racism and capitalism, between racism and imperialism. There is still the living idea of democratic socialism. Ironically Richard Wright was anathematized by the Moscow based Communist Party for suspicion of Trotskyism ! The controversial Trotsky might have been a fanatical Marxist himself but he was fundamentally AN ENEMY OF ALL TYRANNY. Read " The Revolution Betrayed " . Did Richard Wright ever read that book ( George Orwell likened it to Emmanuel Goldstein's heretical book in " 1984