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not sure if this is a hot take or too obvious to state, but tho reading more POC leftists is good, repeating 'read more Black/Asian/etc radicals!' without noting the heterogeneity of these traditions would reify its own kind of counter-productive liberal thinking. for example...
James Baldwin and CLR James were averse to big-C Communism, while Claudia Jones and Harry Haywood embodied different attitudes around CPUSA membership in relation to their own visions of black nationalism.
the legacy of Vietnamese communism is not just 'Ho Chi Minh is awesome', but a product of a violent struggle between different visions of communism between Trotskyists and Stalinists - read Ngô Văn Xuyết.
it would seem strange to valorize the Black Panthers without considering how Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and Kuwasi Balagoon painstakingly reflected on the Party's limitations and mounted rigorous anarchist critiques in prison.
the early days of Chinese leftism should not just be treated as teleological stages to Maoism: there was an explosive flow of ideological debates around and after the late Qing years in which Mao was embedded - read Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, Liu Shifu.
70s Black feminist groups from Combahee to Black Women Organized for Political Action espoused different attitudes toward organizational structure, relationship to more mainstream Black organizations, electoral politics, etc - read Kimberly Springer!
read about Grace Lee Boggs' complex and shifting relationship to Maoist China throughout the years; read Yu Shuet's 'libcom' critique of Maoism, 'The Dusk of Rationality'!
one can agree or disagree with and make your own critical observations about these writers and milieus, but it would be a disservice to Black and Asian radical traditions I think to not consider them in all their contradictions and complexities
