Malcolm X, black liberation & the road to workers power
Malcolm X, black liberation & the road to workers power
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The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the US beginning in the mid-1950s were laid bare by the massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to cities and factories across the continent, drawn by capital's insatiable need for labor power-- and cannon fodder for its wars. Malcolm X emerged from this rising struggle as its outstanding single leader. He insisted that colossal movement was part of a worldwide revolutionary battle for human rights. A clash "between those who want freedom, justice, and equality and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation." Drawing lessons from a century and a half of struggle, this book helps us understand why it is the revolutionary conquest of power by the working class that will make possible the final battle for Black freedom--and open the way to a world based not on exploitation, violence, and racism, but human solidarity. A socialist world. "...A powerful and persuasive political testimony, enhanced with black-and-white photographs, a glossary, and an index."--Midwest Book Review "Recommended for all public libraries and bookstores for its general appeal and historic content." --Críticas (Review of the Spanish edition, Malcolm positions Malcolm X at the center of those struggles as one who was expanding his worldview and political philosophy and was, in Barnes's view, on his way to becoming a communist. Barnes offers up an intriguing and challenging appraisal of an enigmatic leader as well as a valuable addition to the scholarship on this seminal African American leader of the twentieth century."--Afro-Hispanic Review "Will reward readers looking for little known aspects of Malcolm's political views and the leadership place African-Americans have taken at the forefront of working-class and popular struggles from the Civil War to the present day.
