"The Black Panther Party grew out of the Black Power Movement, but the Party transformed the ideology of Black Power into a socialist ideology , a Marxist Leninist ideology. The Black Power movement has a tendency to have a capitalistic orientation along the lines of Marcus Garvey's program and the kind of organization that Elijah Muhammed has. The Black Panther Party feels that not even the Black bourgeoise will,be able to compete with imperialism, who's central base is here, in North America. The United States is the central base of the bourgeoisie, and this is because this country in reality not a nation any longer but an empire that controls the world through economics and physical force--military might. The Black Panther Party has transformed this movement and we have become not nationalist, like the Black Power movement in the past but internationalists.
The bourgeoisie that is based here in America has an international character because it exploits the world, it controls the wealthy of the world, it has stolen, usurped, the wealth of the people of the world, including the people who were stolen from Africa. We feel that the only way that we can combat an international enemy is through an international strategy of unity of all exploited people who will overthrow the international bourgeoisie and replace it with a dictatorship by the proletariat, the workers of the world. And we feel that after imperialism is destroyed, nationhood will no longer be necessary, for the state will then wither away."HUEY P. NEWTON
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