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Intercommunalism is an ideology created by Huey P. Newton which was later adopted by the Black Panther Party after its turn away from revolutionary nationalism in 1970. Intercommunalists believe that most forms of nationalism are obsolescent, because global capital (in the form of international corporations and technologically advanced imperialist states) superseded the authority of the nation-state, reducing nations down to discrete communities which exist to supply an imperial center. The role of the revolutionary then, was not to gain national sovereignty, but to liberate territories within empire by linking “liberated zones" together into a united front against imperialism. Revolutionary nationalism refers to any nationalist political movement that aims to achieve their goals through a revolution against the established order.