Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

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. . . ~°4:~;ular army, no independent shock troops . The insurgents, masters of the coiaY~t-~~;~" "
:-;,:~.c~~°, disdained to march on Lima.,. . seat of the Vice Royalty. This gave Lima time ';o r w
;;, ~:~up un army ; and reconquest was achieved without difficulty, under what conditiatl ;: ono
r :; ,v:. 7~c ; 11 imagine . The uprising of the C.ornuneros of Colombia, led by the famous Tt~zanue ;la
~:; : ."..~":a~;r~, in roughly the same epoch, could also bo call©d self-"defense .
~u ;t as economism denies the vanguard role of the party, self-defense denies the ra .e of
':, le; c, ;;n :.d unit, which is orUanically separate; from the civilian population» Just tas x^~, g"~~
o .~rr~i.,5rn ai.rrts' to constitute a mass party without selection of its militants or dis ;;_~. ;~ .ii::Ac; ;:
;n:ization, self-def©nee aspires to inte rate everyone into the armed struggle, *o
mass guerrilla. force with women, chiJ.dren, and domestic animals in the rnids~la cJf - sac
c : ,-, , i ~C ; .;r c o lumn .
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~~ :,st N.s spontaneity does not aspire to political power for the exploited and con~~eaue~:a-
~t, ~ d~:~~ ":~ n.ot organize itself into a political party, self-defense does not aim at r-fii,itc:t~;,
"u,:~r~:~macy for the exploiaed and consequently does not aspire to organize itself e~s a pop ,
'.a :. - x~~,gul~~,r army with its own mobility and initiative . It may be said that there ~ :~ s~: i}''~
d~ ;r:e~;iso vrherever ta stratq~;ic :.mob9 .lE~ f~,:its
dictatorship of violence ; it maintaira
popular pressure" rather t ::an '`run-~
of the ruling class, promoting divisolutions
as viotories .