The incisive life of Malcolm X underscores the “bundle of contradictions” we all are and how in working with and for the people to help bring about the poor’s self-emancipation we transform both such mass movements that we are part of and ourselves get transformed. More often than not, we could argue, with both as tactics within the strategy of mass revolts revolution from below.
The poor working wage-slave, unemployed youth, and urban poor were and still are the “field niggers” who can liberate themselves only by bringing the reign of the bosses, the slave-masters to an end “by the ballot or the bullet”. Rich black people who being part of the system see their interest as primarily to defend it were described by Malcolm X as the “house nigger” ever so concerned with the slave master’s health and wellbeing. This goes to underscore the intertwined nature of racist oppression and class exploitation. On the other hand, all the victims of racist attacks were from poor working class backgrounds. It is equally instructive that on one hand the resident of White House in Washington is a black Obama. The recent wave of #blacklivesmatter in the wake of killings of young black people across several cities in the United States, point at the fact that racism remains institutionalised in that supposed bastion of liberal democracy. There are lessons to be learnt from his inspiring life and struggle, for activists today. But his exemplary life continues to inspire millions of young and old black people in particular and people of all races in general, across the world. Till date, the conspiracy behind this dastardly assassination of one of this impressive revolutionary described as “our shining black prince” at his funeral is yet to be unravelled. Today makes it exactly 50years that Malcolm X was brutally killed as he prepared to address a session of the Organisation of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) at the 400-person capacity-filled Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, New York. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.” – Malcolm X
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing.
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