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by RAM : Revolutionary Action Movement, Why Malcolm X Died ." In this
article Malcolm X was seen as the individual who attempted to link the
black struggle with the
Bandung revolution and most consistently tried to
destroy the myth that the black struggle was merely a domestic problem . 4
In Black America , the Summer/Fall, 1965 issue, an article entitled,
"The Relationship of the Revolutionary Afro-American Movement to
the
Bandung Revolution" clearly put forth the inter-relatedness of the
two
struggles .
China, Zanzibar, Cuba, Vietnam, Indonesia and Algeria provided
the most revolutionary examples for oppressed people .
These revolutionary
forces and others embodied a concept which RAM describes as
"Bandung Humanism
." This constituted a revolutionary revision of Western or traditional
Marxist doctrine which had
failed to adequately relate revolutionary ideology
to the unprecedented political, socio-economic, technical and psychocultural
developments occurring in the post World War II era . The failure
of Marxism to revolutionize Western Europe and the U .S ., especially in the
depression era of the 1930's, had forced committeed Afro-American revolutionaries
to formulate Bandung Humanism or Revolutionary Black Internationalism
. Bandung Humanism assumed an inevitable confrontation between Western
imperialism and Bandung anti-imperialism . 5
This analysis appeared again in The Present: Situation and the Struggle
for Black Power , 1966, but takes a more critical stance towards some
Bandung world leadership who the authors see as trying to avoid military
confrontation with the West without recognizing the ultimate futility of
4 "An Analysis by RAM : Revolutionary Action Movement, Why Malcolm X
Died," Liberator, 1965, pp . 9-11 .
5 "The Relationship of the Revolutionary Afro--American Movement to the
Bandung Revolution," Black America , (Summer/Fall 1965), p . 11 .