By Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
ISBN-10: 0520039033
ISBN-13: 9780520039032
This certain psychobiographical examine integrates a large and sophisticated view of the heritage of white racism and the black liberation circulation with a deep and delicate realizing of the internal global of Malcolm X. Eugene Victor Wolfenstein is a severe social theorist and a practising psychoanalyst who argues that racism needs to be analyzed inside of a private in addition to a political context. Drawing from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm's released speeches, and quite a few old fabrics, Wolfenstein interweaves Marxist and psychoanalytic ideas to ascertain the evolution of Malcolm's consciousness--from his adolescence via his successive incarnations as hustler, prisoner, black Muslim minister, and African-American innovative. Exploring the advanced interaction of politics, economics, and the human psyche, this robust paintings of severe social conception translates the existence background of Malcolm X and gives a cogent ancient research of the black liberation flow within the usa.
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We will find that the more general conditions of social alienation analyzed in Chapter II were reflected into t he life of the family and into Malcolm's individual identity. In this chapter we will also advance in time to the death of Malcolm's father, when Mal colm was six years old. Taken in combination, Chapters II and ill will form an interpretation of Malcolm's early chiEdhood, of the initial development of his potential for self-conscious activity with· in a social and familial situation of falsified conscious activity.
Never be the aggressor, never look for trouble. But if any man molests you, may Allah bless you! 74 As the last phrase indicates, self-defense was sanctioned by religion. Every Muslim had the right, and the obligation, to do unto others as they did unto him. In practice, this right was vested in the Fruit of Islam; the response to any attack was to be collective rather than individual, as it was, for example, in the Hinton Johnson incident. Through their united effort black people would be freed from the clutches of the white devil.
When he learned of the incident, Malcolm led a group of Muslims down to the local precinct station. As they stood outside, surrounding the building, Malcolm entered and demanded the min· isterial right to visit the arrested man. Having gained this end and seen that Johnson was badly injured, Malcolm prevailed upon the police to transfer Johnson to a hospital for treatment. After here· ceived medical attention, Johnson was returned to his cell. At this point, as one report stated, "Mr. " 64 The next day Malcolm reappeared for the arraignment with his followers, a lawyer, and the necessary bail bond.
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