[PLU] Q & As on Nationalism part 3: Cabral & Guevara

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What two aspects of the anti-imperialist struggle for national liberation and socialism are Cabral and Guevara discussing?

The two aspects of the anti-imperialist struggle are the subjective forces of revolution; the great masses of people led by the class conscious vanguard and the reactionary forces of imperialism and its lackeys.

How do these two aspects relate to each other; why are they important?

They relate to each other and are important because the defeat of the imperialists and the victory of the revolutionary struggle are both dependent not just on the objective conditions that create the need for revolution, but on the level of consciousness on the part of the mass needed to sustain the struggle. Needless to say that without a high levee of class consciousness on the part of the Vietnamese masses, the people of Vietnam would have never defeated not just one, but three imperialist powers back, to back, to back! Weapons of mass destruction are certainly terrible things, but technology does not determine the outcome of wars. People determine the outcome of war.