iii cartoons Communists in the newspapers and always they had flaming torches in
their hands and wore beards and were trying to commit murder or set thing on fire Datum No. 3. Other prejudice also came from the reports that Communist was
linked to two murders done by Bigger. In his inquiry, the State Attorney, even asked Bigger about the involvement of Jan and Communist Party as the actors
behind the crimes. Even though Jan proved his alibi and there were no significant evidences, Bigger’s crime was still used as an opportunity to directly confront the
left wing activist.
4.2.3 Black Nation within White’s Nation
The alienation of black community from other communities in American society in fact put this group in a unique position that can be said as a nation within the
larger nation of America. This concept is match to the definition of nation in Communist doctrine as proposed by Joseph Stalin in
www.uregina.ca~gingrichnation.htm, “a nation is a historically evolved, stable community or language, territory, economic life, and psychological make up
manifested in a community of culture’’. This definition was proposed in order to support his nationalities theory concerning the idea on establishing socialism in
some countries besides USSR. By defining this idea like mentioned above, Stalin hoped for the emergence of many more socialist countries without the need to
wait for revolution in other countries. He further concluded that each community with those characteristics could be regarded as a nation, so that they are potential
to be a socialist country themselves and later become the Soviet’s allies.
iii As a Communist, Richard Wright adopted the idea of his leader, Stalin,
and incorporated the idea into the novel. Trough Max, he revealed the idea. When Max defended Bigger at the court, he said:
’’Taken collectively, they are not simple twelve million people, in the reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held
captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights’’. Datum No. 31
Max thought that these twelve million black people were not simply in number but also in their potential power. He considered this distinct community had
constituted a separate nation within the nation. However, this effort having separate nation had lost its fundamental rights since the dominant group, the
white, had seized all. The oppression done by those oppressors has put black people to make
their own way in getting out from these. Feared and alienated, black then try to have their private community where there is no more oppression, capitalism, and
white’s hegemony. Wright even mentioned that what they really wanted was a classless society in which he and his Communist folks believed.
4.3 To Whom the Novel is addressed
