The past ten years have witnessed a revival in scholarship on militarism, through which scholars have used the concept to make sense of the embeddedness of warlike relations in contemporary liberal societies and to account for how the social, political and economic contours of those same societies are implicated in the legitimation and organization of political violence. However, a persistent shortcoming has been the secondary role of race and coloniality in these accounts. This article demonstrates how we might position racism and colonialism as integral to the functioning of contemporary militarism. Centring the thought and praxis of the US Black Panther Party, we argue that the particular analysis developed by Black Panther Party members, alongside their often-tense participation in the anti–Vietnam War movement, offers a strong reading of the racialized and colonial politics of militarism. In particular, we show how their analysis of the ghetto as a colonial space, their understanding of the police as an illegitimate army of occupation and, most importantly, Huey Newton’s concept of intercommunalism prefigure an understanding of militarism premised on the interconnections between racial capitalism, violent practices of un/bordering and the dissolving boundaries between war and police action.

过去十年见证了军国主义学术的复兴，学者们通过这一概念来理解当代自由社会中战争关系的根深蒂固，并解释这些社会的社会、政治和经济轮廓如何涉及政治暴力的合法化和组织。然而，一个持续存在的缺点是种族和殖民在这些描述中的次要作用。本文展示了我们如何将种族主义和殖民主义定位为当代军国主义运作不可或缺的一部分。以美国黑豹党的思想和实践为中心，我们认为黑豹党成员发展的特殊分析，以及他们经常紧张地参与反越战运动，提供了对军国主义的种族化和殖民政治的深刻解读。特别是，我们展示了他们对隔都作为殖民空间的分析，他们对警察作为非法占领军队的理解，以及最重要的是，休伊·牛顿 (Huey Newton) 的社区间主义概念如何预示着对以种族资本主义之间相互联系为前提的军国主义的理解， un/bordering 的暴力行为以及战争和警察行动之间的界限正在消融。