#HueyNewton defines ‘#BlackPower’ as he and the #BlackPantherParty defined / developed it in an interview with Sechaba, mag of the ANC, Jan 16th 1970:
Sechaba: … we would like you to explain the relationship between the Black Panther Party and the Black Power movement..
#HueyNewton: The #BlackPantherParty grew out of the #BlackPower movement, but the Party transformed the ideology of Black Power into a socialist ideology, a #MarxistLeninist ideology. The Black Power movement has a tendency to have a capitalistic orientation along the lines of …
..#MarcusGarvey’s program and the kind of organization that Elijah Muhammed has. The #BlackPantherParty feels that not even the Black bourgeoisie will be able to compete with imperialism, whose central base is here in North America…
..The United States is the central base of the bourgeoisie, and this is because this country is really not a nation any longer, but an empire that controls the world through economics and physical force—military might…
.. The #BlackPantherParty has transformed this movement into a socialist movement and we have become not nationalists, like the #BlackPower movement in the past, but internationalists… [end quote]
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