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collective level of national consciousness will it be able to develop a clear class-consciousness. The New Afrikan proletariat will see its true class interest. The New Afrikan nationality’s oppression is the greatest strength of U.S. imperialist finance capital. It must first develop a collective consciousness and understand its (New Afrikan proletariat) specific needs. The New Afrikan working class is the most oppressed sector of the proletariat in the U.S. imperialist state, along with other oppressed nations held in captivity inside the American empire.1 New Afrikans, particularly New Afrikan workers, should be taught the potential of the revolutionary economic and political power they have and their relationship to the liberation of the international proletariat and the world socialist revolution. Since 40% of all capital investment in the world is planned for the southern United States with the aim of extracting super-profits from New Afrikan workers, the conscious organization of the New Afrikan proletariat (particularly in the black belt South) against extraction of surplus value is the central antithesis to capitalism and U.S. imperialism in the present period.2 The central task for New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists is to organize the New Afrikan proletariat/underclass (the unemployed) into special formations to fight for their national, racial, and class interests. The Black Liberation Movement will continually flounder until that occurs, so the process should begin on the local level. New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists have the responsibility of “fusing in,” that is working with and constantly projecting political ideas into the proletariat’s ranks. The revolutionary school for the masses is national/class struggle, which is developed through selforganiza-tion (spontaneous actions) and mass organization that is developed by organizers who work with the masses daily. There should also be conscious scientific socialist education among the advanced sectors of all sec-tions of the population.3 After developing the initial nucleus, New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists should develop New Afrikan workers’ nuclei, whose purpose (after intensive ideological training) would be to develop the intermediate and elementary sections of the New Afrikan working class. New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists engage in point of production work because it is of strategic importance to build the labor power to affect the system. This should be combined with neighborhood work. The political consciousness of New Afrikan workers, however, is tied to the fact that all New Afrikans face racial exploitation, therefore political consciousness is very much tied to the political level of mass struggle presently taking place. After the initial development, the question of “fusion” is of the utmost importance. The major task of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists is to help build an organization of New Afrikan workers and politicize broad sectors of the community. Our task is to merge our activities with the practical, everyday questions of working class life, to help workers understand these questions, to draw the workers’ attention to the most important abuses (employers more precisely and practically), to develop among the workers consciousness of their solidarity, consciousness of the common interests and common cause of all the workers as a united working class that is part of the international army of the proletariat.4 1. 2. 3. 4.
Rally Comrades, 1982, Volume 2, Number 4 August, p.2. Workers Tribune, 1982, Number 9, July-august, p.3. Ibid. p.3. V.I. Lenin, 1977, On Building the Bolshevik Party: Selected Writings 1894-1905 (Chicago, Illinois: Liberator Press), p.37.