Black Power as an epochal stage and interpretation of world history, a new hermeneutic for a revised historical totality. The internationalism of the Comintern period – 1919 to 1943 – was now superseded by the age of Pan-Africanism and the age of Bandung, the latter signalling the conference of 29 African and Asian countries meeting at Bandung, Indonesia in 1955. Whereas Lenin had defined turn of the century imperialism as the “highest stage of capitalism,” the Bandung Era was one of “neo-colonialism,” hailed as the “last stage of imperialism.” The World Black Revolution would resolve the “principal” contradiction of the neo-colonial system – “White Overclass” over “Black Underclass” – resulting in a “dictatorship of the Black Underclass” and a black global state dedicated to building a “world communalistand Communist Party member Harold Cruse, who saw in the Marxist Left a conspiracy to destroy black radical autonomy. “World Black Revolution” argued that failures on the part of the Soviet Union and Marxist Left to support black and Third World liberation had consigned the project of European Marxism to the dustbin of white supremacist history. In turn, independent black revolutionary organizations and cadre were needed to supplant Communist parties and their associations, like the Communist International. The Revolutionary Action Movement, authors of “World Black Revolution,” were none other than the cadre and vanguard of this new revolutionary era.

Who and What was RAM?

RAM member Muhammad Ahmed (aka Max Stanford) is assigned authorship of “World Black Revolution” (though its composition was likely collective) and has written the only complete