 This implies that the experience of Black people unfolds in a social and political world that its defined by its exclusion from power. A similar implication holds for indigenous people, who have been subjugated and dominated by colonial power. Liberation movements thus spring from a social experience that is in a sense anarchic (i.e., developed in exclusion from and opposition to structures of power). It is not surprising, then, that some liberatory activists espouse and affirm anarchism. The American activist Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, for example, affirms anarchism in pursuit of Black liberation (Ervin 1997 [2016]). He explains that Black anarchism is different from what he describes as the more authoritarian hierarchy of the Black Panther party. He also argues against the authoritarian structure of religiously oriented Black liberation movements, such as that led by Martin Luther King, Jr. 