The party must engage in activities that will teach the people. To study and learn is good but the actual experience is the best means of learning. The community learns through activity, either through observation of or participation in the activity. The black community is basically composed of activists. There are basically three ways one can learn: through study, through observation, and through actual experience. During slavery, in which no vanguard party existed and forms of communication were severely restricted and insufficient, many slave revolts occurred.
#HUEY P NEWTON REVOLUTIONARY HOW TO#
It is not necessary to organize thirty million Black people in primary groups of two’s and three’s but it is important for the party to show the people how to go about revolution. When the masses hear that a gestapo policeman has been executed while sipping coffee at a counter, and the revolutionary executioners fled without being traced, the masses will see the validity of this type of approach to resistance. When the Vanguard group destroys the machinery of the oppressor by dealing with him in small groups of three and four, and then escapes the might of the oppressor, the masses will be overjoyed and will adhere to this correct strategy. When the people learn that it is no longer advantageous for them to resist by going into the streets in large numbers, and when they see the advantage in the activities of the guerrilla warfare method, they will quickly follow this example.īut first, they must respect the party which is transmitting this message. This knowledge will probably be gained secondhand by the masses just as the above mentioned was gained indirectly. If the activities of the party are respected by the people, the people will follow the example.
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It must teach the correct strategic methods of prolonged resistance through literature and activities. The Vanguard Party must provide leadership for the people. The first man who threw a molotov cocktail is not personally known by the masses, but yet the action was respected and followed by the people. This method has been transmitted to all the ghettos of the black nation across the country. This manner of resistance is sporadic, short-lived, and costly in violence against the people. The brothers and sisters in the streets were herded into a small area by the gestapo police and immediately contained by the brutal violence of the oppressor’s storm troops.
The brothers in East Oakland learned from Watts a means of resistance fighting by amassing the people in the streets, throwing bricks and molotov cocktails to destroy property and create disruption. At this time the black masses are handling the resistance incorrectly. Those things learned indirectly many times stimulate very effective responses to what might be later a direct experience. Humans do not act from instinct as lower animals do. Most things the human being learns are gained through an indirect relationship to the object.
#HUEY P NEWTON REVOLUTIONARY ARCHIVE#
Public Domain: Marxist Internet Archive 2021. Transcription/Markup: 2021 by Philip Mooney
In Defense of Self Defense, The Black Panther, July 20, 1967 Newton, The Correct Handling of a Revolution, In Defense of Self Defense, The Black Panther, July 20, 1967
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