![]() They have no mobility for going up the class ladder. In America, we have not only a class society, we also have a caste system, and black people are fitted into the lowest caste. In the upper class, the individuals always try to free themselves from these limitations - the artificial limitations placed upon him through external sources: namely, some hierarchy that goes by the name of State or Governmental Administration. That class also limits the freedom of the individual souls of the people which comprise it. It is also true within the ruling class, the master class. This is true not only for the mass of the lower or subjugated class. ![]() This reactionary class society places its limitations on individuals, not just in terms of their occupation, but also regarding self expression, being mobile, and being free to really be creative and do anything they want to do. This is a class society it always has been. We should understand there is a difference between the rebellion of the anarchists and the black revolution or liberation of the black colony. Public Domain: Marxist Internet Archive 2021. Transcription/Markup: 2021 by Philip Mooney 12–14, NovemPamphlet titled Essays From the Minister of Defense published by the Black Panther Party, 1968, Oakland In Defense of Self Defense, The Black Panther, November 16, 1968 Huey on Anarchists and Individualists as Related to Revolutionary Struggle and the Black Liberation Movement Newton, Huey on Anarchists and Individualists as Related to Revolutionary Struggle and the Black Liberation Movement, In Defense of Self Defense, The Black Panther, November 16, 1968 Read more about this topic: Huey P.Huey P. Newton once wrote that he began his law studies to become a better criminal, although he said that he had been a "big-time fool" for having such narrow ambitions. Newton supported himself in college by burglarizing homes in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills areas, and by committing other petty crimes. He struggled to read The Republic by Plato at first, finally reading it five times to better understand it, and it was this success that inspired him to become a political leader.Īs a teenager, he was arrested several times for minor offenses including an arrest for gun possession and vandalism at age 14. However, he went on to teach himself to read. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire."Īlthough he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1959, Newton was illiterate. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. In his autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide, he wrote, "During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Growing up in Oakland, Newton stated that " was made to feel ashamed of being black". Despite this, he contended that his family was close-knit and that he never went without food and shelter as a child. The Newton family was quite poor and often relocated throughout the San Francisco Bay Area during Newton's childhood. In 1945, the family settled in Oakland, California. His parents named him after former Governor of Louisiana Huey Long. Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the youngest of seven children to Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist lay preacher.
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