Swiftly and urgently he outlines tactics and strategy: a Leninist vanguard, a broadly based political infrastructure within the black colonies of the inner cities which will shield the people's army, light easily portable and easily stolen weapons, camouflage, infiltration, ambush. Imprisonment as an aspect of class struggle and racism as a fundamental characteristic of monopoly capitalism - these are his organizing principles, the dual pillars of his exhortatory call to arms. Here the revolutionary consciousness towards which he was struggling in the early letters is fully realized: Jackson picks and chooses among Lenin, Mao, Fanon, the Algerian and Uruguayan examples to construct an operative theory of urban guerrilla warfare which will fit the unique polity of racially torn America. Genet called Soledad Brother (1970) ""a poem of love and combat."" Completed barely a week before he was killed at San Quentin, Jackson's second collection of letters, with essays interspersed, is much less poem, much more single-minded polemic.
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