Survival Pending Revolution: Self-determination in the age of proto-neo-liberal globalization
Narayan, John (2020) Survival Pending Revolution: Self-determination in the age of proto-neo-liberal globalization. Current Sociology, 68 (2). pp. 187-203. ISSN 0011-3921
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Abstract
In 1971 the Black Panther Party (BPP) seemingly went through an ideological transformation. Between 1968-1970 the Party had forged strong national and international solidarity and support through a politics of revolutionary armed self-defence and a commitment to anti-imperialism. Yet, in late 1970 as the sands of both national and geo-politics shifted, and as allies, both at home and abroad, became less supportive, the Panther’s found themselves on less solid ground. Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton, realising this shift in the political landscape, and the futility of attempting an armed insurgency against the state without widespread support, now steered the BPP towards the idea of ‘Survival Pending Revolution’. This saw the Panthers abandon the idea of immediate armed insurrection against the state and re-orient towards a focus on their community engagement ‘survival programs’. This paper argues that Newton’s orientation of the BPP away from armed insurrection and towards survival pending revolution was not simply a pragmatic choice of strategy, but rather based on a theorization of what he dubbed reactionary intercommunalism. Moreover, the paper suggests that the history of neo-liberal globalization can be complicated and expanded by viewing Newton as one of the first theorists of neo-liberal globalization and BPP survival programs as one of the first responses to the on-coming era of neo-liberalism in the US.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0011392119886870 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Black power, globalization, imperialism, intercommunalism, non-liberalism | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-02 - sociology | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Criminology and Sociology | ||||||
| Depositing User: | John Narayan | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2018 10:01 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2022 15:54 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6718 |
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