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Marxism is itself not an ideology more of an analytical framework. The word we should both be using is Communist and yes Malcom X was a communist. "In 1950, the

Marxism is itself not an ideology more of an analytical framework. The word we should both be using is Communist and yes Malcom X was a communist. "In 1950, the FBI opened a file on Malcolm after he wrote a letter from prison to President Truman expressing opposition to the Korean War and declaring himself a communist."

TeeMassive 5y ago
You are making a distinction without making a difference in the argument. "it's not an ideology, it's an analytical framework", sounds more like a bad marketing campaign than a compelling argument. > The word we should both be using is Communist and yes Malcom X was a communist. "In 1950, the FBI opened a file on Malcolm after he wrote a letter from prison to President Truman expressing opposition to the Korean War and declaring himself a communist." You are taking things out of context. At the time anti-communism was used and abused to suppress all sort of inconvenient political movements. Saying "then yeah I'm a communist" in defiance didn't make you one. Also: https://www.marxist.com/malcolm-x-forty-years-after.htm https://www.marxist.com/malcolm-x-forty-years-after.htm > Malcolm X was always a man who was rethinking and recreating himself, but there is no concrete documentation that he was on the verge of becoming a Marxist, or even a socialist. https://www.socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist-i-ll-show-you-a-bloodsucker.htm https://www.socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist... > Despite the opinion of some so-called Marxist groups in the US and abroad, Malcolm X was not a socialist, and he never claimed to be. https://socialistresurgence.org/2020/02/21/malcolm-x-black-nationalism-and-socialism/ https://socialistresurgence.org/2020/02/21/malcolm-x-black-n... > His evolution was incomplete—or rather, incompleted. He was not, or was not yet, as Breitman is careful to point out, a Marxist.
- zapataband1 5y ago
  I'm wasn't arguing merely mentioning that we are both incorrectly using language. Didn't know that was marketing. Fair enough on Malcolm. Still think it is not correct to oversimply massive worker movements that have toppled governments, the nazis, and the US military as merely college students.

TeeMassive 5y ago

You are making a distinction without making a difference in the argument. "it's not an ideology, it's an analytical framework", sounds more like a bad marketing campaign than a compelling argument. > The word we should both be using is Communist and yes Malcom X was a communist. "In 1950, the FBI opened a file on Malcolm after he wrote a letter from prison to President Truman expressing opposition to the Korean War and declaring himself a communist." You are taking things out of context. At the time anti-communism was used and abused to suppress all sort of inconvenient political movements. Saying "then yeah I'm a communist" in defiance didn't make you one. Also: https://www.marxist.com/malcolm-x-forty-years-after.htm https://www.marxist.com/malcolm-x-forty-years-after.htm > Malcolm X was always a man who was rethinking and recreating himself, but there is no concrete documentation that he was on the verge of becoming a Marxist, or even a socialist. https://www.socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist-i-ll-show-you-a-bloodsucker.htm https://www.socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist... > Despite the opinion of some so-called Marxist groups in the US and abroad, Malcolm X was not a socialist, and he never claimed to be. https://socialistresurgence.org/2020/02/21/malcolm-x-black-nationalism-and-socialism/ https://socialistresurgence.org/2020/02/21/malcolm-x-black-n... > His evolution was incomplete—or rather, incompleted. He was not, or was not yet, as Breitman is careful to point out, a Marxist.

zapataband1 5y ago
I'm wasn't arguing merely mentioning that we are both incorrectly using language. Didn't know that was marketing. Fair enough on Malcolm. Still think it is not correct to oversimply massive worker movements that have toppled governments, the nazis, and the US military as merely college students.