Garvey's work caused him to become a prophet to Rastafarians and a national hero in Jamaica. The article is reprinted in Rex Nettleford's Caribbean Quarterly monograph: Rastafari (Kingston: Carribean Quarterly, University of the West Indies, 1985)
"The limitations of the philosophy of black power emerged when the leaders of this popular movement failed to link the spontaneous protest to the organized activities of the working class and farmers. ...The experiences of the National Joint Action Committee and the National Union of Freedom Fighters led to a re-examination of the all-class notion of race, and new political groupings emerged or gathered strength as they sought clarification and answers to the pressing problems of the people. ...The rise of these popular and democratic organizations marked a new turning point, but the failure of some these groups to root their movement in their own historical specificity with the distorted and uneven development of the proletarian masses, led to the growth of the Rasta movement among the youth." (author)
A "growing view among Rastafari people [is] that we ought to be examined from within. ...this examination should be undertaken by ones who have experienced the movement as a process. ...For my part I subscribe to this school of thought. I am therefore writing from the base of a solid grounding into Rastafari and a continuous Rastafari livity." (author)
