intercommunalism means A political philosophy which holds that nations have been reduced to a series of discrete communities; adopted by the Black Panther Party to replace nationalism. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.
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INTERCOMMUNALISM — [Noun] A political theory, articulated by Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party, positing that global corporate power has rendered the nation-state obsolete, reducing the world to a landscape of directly competing communities as the primary units of global conflict and solidarity. From the English prefix inter- ("between, among") + communal ("of a community") + the suffix -ism ("doctrine, theory"). Unlike nationalism, which fixates on the sovereignty of the distinct nation-state, or internationalism, which presupposes cooperation between those established states, intercommunalism declares both nostalgic fictions, superseded by an order where power pits neighborhood against neighborhood. It is the grim cartography that sees the police-patrolled precinct, the shuttered factory town, and the water-starved barrio not as isolated issues, but as interconnected fronts in a global struggle—a doctrine born from the aching recognition that the old walls have fallen, revealing an intimate and pervasive grid of control.
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- A political philosophy which holds that nations have been reduced to a series of discrete communities; adopted by the Black Panther Party to replace nationalism.“These transformations and phenomena require us to call ourselves “intercommunalists” because nations have been transformed into communities of the world. The Black Panther Party now disclaims internationalism and supports intercommunalism.”