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The Real Black Panthers

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The Black Panther Party and Socialism in Practice

Donna Merch: Black Panthers had a vision to organize workers across all racial and ethnic groups in the same way Marxists had done in Cuba, China or Vietnam. She says they tried to knit together disadvantaged groups inside the United States to oppose capitalism and expose U.S. expansionism. "We can no longer allow the senselessness of anarchy and arbitrary destruction," she says.

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