The Communist Party holds a Marxist worldview concerning the relationship between workers and capital owners. The main idea is that capital works to concentrate itself and, in so doing, requires continual exploitation of workers and increasing inequality of wealth. This, according to the Marxist worldview, will inevitably lead to the workers rising against the capital owners. The Communist Party in most countries works to hasten this result in a nonviolent manner. The political platform involves nationalizing most (if not all) industries in order to confiscate the profits from capital. Combined with a confiscatory income and wealth tax and a heavily expanded social welfare program, the Communist Party seeks to equalize outcomes for most—though there is a good amount of disagreement about whether complete equality or relative equality is the best course of action.
The NAACP pushes a political view of racial equality, mostly for African Americans. The equality desired by the NAACP is not equality of outcome, but equality of opportunity. Specifically, the organization seeks legislation and court decisions which help to mitigate the damage caused by racism in prior generations in order to create a level competitive field.
Mobilization for World War II brought many African Americans into the military and provided training that might not otherwise have been attainable. Various GI benefits also provided advantages that were not normally available to African Americans.
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