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As colonial subjects with a right to self-determination, RAM [Revolutionary Action Movement] saw Afro-America as a de facto member of the nonaligned nations ... they characterized their work as part of Mao's international strategy of encircling Western capitalist countries and challenging imperialism.

Mao's insistence that the revolutionary capacity of the peasantry was not dependent on the urban proletariat was particularly attractive to Black radicals skeptical of the idea that they must wait for the objective conditions to launch their revolution.