Max Stanford argued that black students of the war baby generation embodied several contradictions at once, contradictions that could lead them to embrace capitalism and white values. What he was arguing really was specific to the social formation of RAM which emerged as a student based organization initially. And so in other words, what he was saying was simultaneous or anticipated, the black panther parties focus on organizing the so-called lump in the proletariat.
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