Gawd, I really hate to hijack this thread, but being OWL...
The panthers were young, hell at thirty-two, and most of that being spent incarcerated, Eldridge was young ass hell really. Under the pressure of building a progressive unit under what they determined to be what Marxism represented, they were at a disadvantage to further their understanding outside of the context of the actual struggle. If you read Mao's letters and his walking orders to his people, even he sorts the data in terms of the nation in which he belongs. And that is hegelism. Study, or to be constant, theory, then struggle, or practice, then dialectical synthesis. The problem was the young panthers misjudged the power of the state AT THAT TIME. Now, we have to deal with the product of the repressive agent, namely COINTELPRO, in the form of the BLOODZ and CRIPZ.
I only find fault with Dr. West because he is not a front line soldier, like how George described his relationship with Huey, using the analogy of Fidel and Che, and he could have also added Stalin and Lenin, were you have an agitator and executor, but West has no executor and he is also not trying to have one, but he talks as though he is the practitioner of such a reality...
