revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

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the black movement in the 1960's . Also because it used various tactics,
from mass demonstrations to armed self-defense, and was the first organization
in the 1960's to advocate the use of urban guerrilla warfare to
achieve the objective of an independent black socialist republic in the
south . Major theoreticians such as Abraham Guillen, Carlos Marighella,
Mario Roberto Santucho, Robert F . Williams, Malcolm X and Max Stanford
will be examined for their contribution to developing a conceptual framework
and theoretical paradigm for urban guerrillas .
In developing a descriptive ananlysis of RAM,
the Revolutionary
Action Movement, as one of the urban revolutionary movements in capitalist
countries in the Western hemisphere, certain theoretical and conceptual
approaches to the subject matter have to be defined . The first thing that
has to be defined is what method of approach should be used in describing
a new phenomenon in which a recognized academic methodology )as yet to be
developed . In analyzing RAM, the researcher will use a dialectical and
historical materialist method . This is a method whereby the researcher
approaches the subject matter as a material
phenomenon that is constantly
changing and is subject to economic/political laws governing human society .
According to materialist dialectics, changes to nature are due
chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in
society, that is, the contradiction between the productive
forces and the relations of production, the contradictions
between. the old and the new ; it is the development of these
contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetus
for the suppression of the old society by the new .
Does materialist dialectics exclude external causes Not at
all . It holds that external causes are the condition of
change and internal causes are the basis of change, and that
external causes become operative through internal causes .
In a suitable temperature, an egg changes into a chicken, but
no temperature can charge a stone into a chicken because each
has a different basis . There is a constant interaction between,
the people of different countries . In the era of