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this position . These cautious Bandung leaders eventually will have to
fight U .S . imperialism or will be eliminated in wars of national liberation
within their own nations . Mao Tse-Tung's international revolutionary
strategy which involves the encirclement of
the Western capitalist
countries forms the basis of RAM's argument .
The struggle for black state
power is a necessary part of the encirclement plan .
Many Bandung revolutionaries
fail to understand the black movement . They perceive its goals
as integration and not black power . The authors of the article asserted
that conditions within the U .S . were driving black people to a 'fight or
die'
position and felt that the Bandung world must recognize this important
development . The authors go on to say that one of the major problems
in developing an international perspective is that African-Americans do not
identify with Bandung struggles throughout the world, which, they felt was
due in part to skeptism about the interests and concerns that Bandung peoples
express about the black movement . 6
In all of the documents that followed (1966-69), the term Bandung appears
less frequently although the international nature of the black struggle
was not deemphasized .
Black internationalism and revolutionary black
internationalism became the more common terms .
The emphasis in the documents
from the summer of 1966 to 1969 was much more on
the domestic struggle,
organizing tactics and problems and black nationalism as an ideology .
The theme of the bankruptcy of current revolutionary theory is most
fully developed in World Black Revolution ,
a RAM pamphlet that appeared in
1966 . The United states, Europe and the Soviet Union were presented as
equally imperialistic and white supremist . All non-white pepole were
6Don Freeman and Muhammad Ahmad, The Present Situation and the Struggle
for Black State Power , May, 1966 .