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tributing o such programs he will be able to help build the vehicle
that will eventually liberate the Black community. He will not be able
to deliver the people from their problems, but he will be able to help
build the strong political machine which will serve as a revolutionary
vanguard and guide the people in their move towards freedom.
OUf fe-analysis of Black capitalism and its relationship to the community
from the perspective of dialectical materialism, and our practical
understanding of the needs of the community and the attitudes
of the people toward Black capitalism, leads us to a new position. Black
businesses that have the interests of the community at heart will be
able to contribute to the people through the community programs of
the Black Panther Party. These free programs will help the community
to survive and thus deter the genocide which is always a threat to
our existence here.
In return for these contributions the Black Panther Party will carry
advertisements of these businesses in our paper and urge the community
to support them. We will never sell advertising space in the
paper, but we will give space in return for contributions to the survival
programs, which arc given free to the community. In this way we will
achieve a greater unity of the community of victims, the people who
arc victimized by the society in general, and the Black capitalists who
are victimized by the corporate capitalist monopolies. In this way we
will increase the positive qualities of Black capitalism until they dominate
the negative qualities, and exploitation will no longer be the reality
which the community reluctantly accepts.
The community will see those who support their survival and
patronize their places of business. At the same time the community
will also criticize those who refuse to participate in their survival programs,
and turn their backs on them. If the establishment tries to come
down hard on those businessmen who support the survival programs,
then the community will recognize this as another form of oppression
and will move to strongly defend their supporters. In that way the consciousness
of the people and the level of the struggle will be advanced.
There is no salvation in capitalism, but through this new approach
the Black capitalist will contribute to his own negation by helping to
build a strong political vehicle which is guided by revolutionary concepts
and serves as a vanguard for the people. In a way our new posi-