After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.