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Show ·57 upon which The agreed. Ally staff and other factions of the movement dis Black liberation was not a central theme of The Ally, and this led to criticism from the USSF and other papers which attempted to link the Black liberation movement in the United States with the armed struggle of the Vietnamese and other nationalist movements throughout the underdeveloped world. These papers, Smith said, incorrectly established the heroic imae of the Black revolutionary as paradigm of all revolutionary possibilities available a American society, narrowly defining the to revolutionary situation as inevitably violent and thus discouraging combat weary servicemen from becoming active in the GI movement. the Black liberation movement and its imminence. turely by some Despite lts sincerity, promoted a false sense of revolution Fully intact, the system was perceived prema GI papers as collapsing. Although The Ally periodically contained stories concerning racism within the military, Black liberation was because, Smith said, "We weren't trying lem." and a Within the parameters of The propaganda strategy, racism was not a major theme to solve the racial prob Ally's political orientation seen as a single element within complex system of varying degrees of political and economic exploitation of'which the Vietnam War itself was merely symptomatic. The Ally attempted American system, political explain to its readers the structure of the viewed by the staff In this sense, The radical to as increasingly imperialistic. Ally staff was concerned with developing a consensus the war's aftermath. among its readers in The idea of preparation fr promoting an immediate insurrec tion within the ranks that would then be the basis of revolution |
