revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

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the black liberation movement .
RAM's analysis that liberation of black
people was impossible under capitalism is supported by the government's
counter-insurgency program against all elements of the movement . The federal
agencies were as vicious and thorough in their attacks against the
moderate elements represented by Dr . Martin Luther King, Jr ., an advocate
of non-violence and integration, as they were against those such as RAM
who called for the overthrow of the state . 45 The government was willing
in the late 1960's and early 1970's to use harassment, intimidation, incarceration,
spying, character assassination and murder to crush the black
movement . It seems safe to assume that these tactics will be used again
as the black liberation movement rebuilds its in the coming years .
45 The author used government investigations of its own activities to
demonstrate its own admission of its participation in illegal activities
and more importantly, its strategy to destroy the movement .