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beyond the caricature of the angry black revolutionary often portrayed in mainstream narratives. The real Malcolm was a visionary whose radical transformation both shocked and inspired the world.
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“You can’t have capitalism without racism,” Malcolm told an audience at the Militant Labor Forum in 1964. He observed that the exploitation of black people in the United States was not an exception, but part of a larger global pattern — one that connected Harlem to the Congo, Mississippi to Palestine, and the American ghetto to every colonized nation resisting imperial domination. “The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia,” he said, “is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country.”
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Malcolm named US foreign policy for what it was: violent, racist, and imperialist
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“This is what they mean when they say ‘law and order,’” he declared. “They mean they want to keep you and me under control.”
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His warnings about US power — its foundation in racial capitalism, its dependence on violence, and its global reach — are confirmed in every drone strike, every police killing, every billion-dollar arms deal, and every neglected neighborhood at home. So, too, is his call for global solidarity: not to reform the machinery of oppression, but to dismantle it altogether.
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“You don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it,” he declared in 1964. “Revolutions overturn systems.”
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“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against,” he declared. “I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”