Here is a thread of highlight quotes on “Marxists” from Huey P. Newton’s 1974 “Intercommunalism” text (which you can read in full here, courtesy of @viewpointmag: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-1974/).
“If you are a Marxist, then Marx’s racism affects your own judgment because a Marxist is someone who worships Marx and the thought of Marx.

Remember, though, that Marx himself said, ‘I am not a Marxist.’”
”Marxists cherish the conclusions which Marx arrived at through his method, but they throw away the method itself – leaving themselves in a totally static posture.”
“Most Marxists really are historical materialists:

They look to the past to get answers for the future, and that does not work.”
”If you are a dialectical materialist ... Marx’s racism does not matter.

You do not believe in the conclusions of one ... but in the validity of a mode of thought; and we ... as dialectical materialists, recognize [Marx] as one of the great contributors to that mode of thought.”
”Whether or not Marx was a racist is irrelevant and immaterial to whether or not the system of thinking he helped to develop delivers truths about processes in the material world. And this is true in all disciplines.”
“In every discipline you find people who have distorted visions and are at a low state of consciousness who nonetheless have flashes of insight and produce ideas worth considering.”
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