One thing that ought to be front and center in any discussion of Malcolm X is the fact (as testified to by Alex Haley in his background writing about The Autobiography) that despite Malcolm X's dismissals of pro-integrationist so-called "Negro leaders" he expressed a "grudging admiration" for King --- Had Malcolm X lived, he might have become exactly what J. Edgar Hoover feared, "a black messiah" --- or using our language --- a true class-conscious, race-conscious leader, anti-imperialist leader ---
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:37 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > (This is the second part of the review.) > > NY Review of Books, March 11, 2021 issue > What Dignity Demands > by Brandon M. Terry > > Reviewed: > > The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin > Luther King Jr. > by Peniel E. Joseph > Basic Books, 373 pp., $30.00 > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6523): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6523 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80757548/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
