Revolutionary Action Movement | |
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Abbreviation | RAM |
Leader | Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford) Donald Freeman |
Founded | 1962 |
Dissolved | 1968 |
Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Newspaper | Black America |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
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Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) was a Marxist-Leninist,[1] black nationalist[2] organisation which was active from 1962 to 1968.[3] They were the first group to apply the philosophy of Maoism to conditions of black people in the United States and informed the revolutionary politics of the Black Power movement.[4][5][6] RAM was the only secular political organization which Malcolm X joined prior to 1964.[7] The group's political formation deeply influenced the politics of Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and many other future influential Black Panther Party founders and members.
RAM was a semi-clandestine organization and articulated a revolutionary program for Black Americans that fused Black Nationalism with Marxism-Leninism.
By the end of 1968 RAM was dissolved as an official organization.
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