MXGM Self-Defence Manual

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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement March 2013
A Strategic Thinking Primer
1. What is the issue/struggle
2. What is the nature or make up of this issue/struggle
3. What are the contradictions pertaining to this issue/struggle What is the primary
contradiction What is the secondary contradiction
4. What are the objective factors of this issue What are the subjective factors of this
issue/struggle
5. Who or what are the motive forces of change in this struggle (Primary)
6. Who are the opposing forces involved in this issue/struggle
7. What are the contradictions between these forces The primary contradictions The
secondary contradictions
8. What is the history of struggle on this issue What have been the critical moments of
decision in this struggle
9. What are the general aspects, tendencies, and features of this struggle What are the
specific aspects, tendencies and features of this struggle
10. Why is this issue important to us (Afrikan people, MXGM, etc.)
11. What are our interests in addressing this issue/struggle
12. What are we fighting for in addressing this issue/struggle In the short term In the long
term
13. What are our strengths in addressing this issue What are our weaknesses
14. How do we build on our strengths How do we address and correct our weaknesses
15. Who or what are the motive forces of change in this struggle (Secondary)
16. How do we relate to these motive forces or change agents
17. Who are our friends Why are they our friends What are their expressed and real
interests in this struggle What are their short and long-term objectives What are their
strengths What are their weaknesses
18. Who are our enemies Why are they our enemies What are their expressed and real
interests in this struggle What are their short and long-term objectives What are their
strengths What are their weaknesses
19. Who are the neutral forces Why are they neutral on this issue Can they become our
friends How do we keep them from becoming enemies
20. What factors in this struggle can we independently impact, manipulate, or change
21. What do we need to know more about in this struggle How do we obtain this
information and knowledge
22. What is the current balance of forces in the struggle Who’s winning or in possession of
the momentum and initiative Who’s losing Why
23. How has this balance of forces shifted from the past to the present What were the
causes of the shift What shifts can we anticipate in the future
24. What space do we independently operate in
25. What factors in this struggle can we independently impact, manipulate, or change
26. What are our operating principles in this struggle What are we willing to compromise
What are will unwilling to compromise
27. Who should we be forming alliances with Why In the short-term In the long-term
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