no more, and depleting the raw materials of this nation, they have run amuck abroad in their attempts to extend their economic domination. To end this oppression we must liberate the developing nation -- the countryside of the world -- and then our final act will be the strike against the "city." As one nation is liberated elsewhere it gives us a better chance to be free here.

“The theory of revolutionary intercommunalism called for a worldwide planned economy to rid of the ills of the US empire.”

Huey Newton's understanding of the relationship between class and international solidarity would further develop as the Black Panther Party faced steeper repression and the US military became more entangled in Vietnam. This would culminate in Newton's theory of revolutionary intercommunalism. Newton definedrevolutionary intercommunalism as "the time when the people seize of the means of production and distribute the wealth and the technology in an egalitarian way to the many communities of the world." Nations no longer existed because the US empire didn't allow them to exist. The US empire had taken either direct or indirect control of many of the world's countries, disallowing them from practicing independence in any manner that could be considered "nationhood."

Revolutionary intercommunalism advanced the Marxist theory of class struggle in significant ways. First, the theory concluded that advances in technology were changing the character of class contradictions in US society. Unemployed workers would replace the proletariat as the antagonistic class to the capitalist exploiters. Furthermore, global expansion and war were deemed to render national borders