The 3 Worlds Thesis
Newark: Revolutionary Communist League (M.L.M.), [1977]. Side-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in photo-illustrated black and white wraps, [14] pp.
The Revolutionary Communist League (of Newark) formed in 1974, evolving there out of the continued black liberation and black nationalist movement, geographically-specific of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Around the same time the Nelson Johnson-led Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU) and Stokely Carmichael-led All Afrikan People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), the Congress of Afrikan Peoples had formed in Newark, growing out of the Committee for a Unified Newark(CFUN) as a cultural nationalist organization. This group eventually shifted ideologies, shirking revisionism to their cause, and became the multi-cultural Communist and Black Radical group that continued to be led by Amiri Baraka under the banner of the Revolutionary Communist League (MLM [Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung Thought]) and declaring their intent to work towards a single and unified vanguard party. An expression of this was their merging into the League of Revolutionary Struggle(LRS)(1978-1990) in 1980.
This booklet of criticism, organization and practice was issued by the League in response to Mao's developing the Three World Theory in conversation with Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda in 1974.
OCLC locates a single copy held at the Dana Library in the City of Newark Special Collections at Rutgers who also attributed this publication to appearing in 1977.
(Frazier, R. T. P. (2006). The Congress of African People: Baraka, Brother Mao, and the Year of ‘74. Souls, v8(3), 142–159).
. Very good, some toning to wraps and text block, light creasing and edge wear all around, small stain to lower cover, else some light ink markings to occasional pages of text block. Item #3080
Price: $200.00