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Thread with some excerpts from 'Black Panter Radical Factionalization and the Development of Black Anarchism'
Black anarchism fractured out of Marxist-Leninist-oriented groups, not out of the largely white anarchist movement in the US.
Rank and file former BPPs were more likely to become anarchists than BPP "leaders"
In 2004, Former BLA member turned Anarchist Ojore
Lutalo characterized many civil rights leaders as corrupt opportunists:
Lutalo characterized many civil rights leaders as corrupt opportunists:
Liberal/moderate civil rights groups can thank Black revolutionaries for boosting their funding:
Former rank-and-file BPP member Kuwasi Balagoon criticized BPP's hierarchical model:
BPP leaders started to "live high off the hog" while rank and files sold papers, according to Balagoon:
Balagoon reflected on how he put BPP leaders on a pedestal & how anarchism helped him see "you, as an individual, should be respected and that no one is important enough to do your thinking for you":
Black Anarchist Martin Sostre, who owned a bookstore in Buffalo NY, may have been the first former BPP member to seriously consider anarchism:
Sostre thought the ML party structure would produce a new class of elites:
Alston became frustrated with white anarchists in the US, who rejected his proposals to create POC organizing groups:
Ervin and others started their own Black anarchist/autonomous groups:
The first APOC (Anarchist People of Color) conference was held in 2003 w/ over 100 attendees.
Today American anarchism is not a "whites-only" affair & prioritizes race more centrally because of Black anarchists. influence.
