By Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
This special psychobiographical examine integrates a large and sophisticated view of the historical past of white racism and the black liberation stream with a deep and delicate figuring out of the internal global of Malcolm X. Eugene Victor Wolfenstein is a serious social theorist and a practising psychoanalyst who argues that racism needs to be analyzed inside a private in addition to a political context. Drawing from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm's released speeches, and a number of ancient fabrics, Wolfenstein interweaves Marxist and psychoanalytic ideas to envision the evolution of Malcolm's consciousness--from his early life via his successive incarnations as hustler, prisoner, black Muslim minister, and African-American progressive. Exploring the advanced interaction of politics, economics, and the human psyche, this strong paintings of serious social idea translates the existence historical past of Malcolm X and gives a cogent historic research of the black liberation move within the usa.
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I09 Intra-class competition precludes inter-class conflict; Myrdal's and Cox's arguments are mutually exclusive. THE PROBLEM JI Earlier we found that radicalism and militancy seemed to exclude each other; now we find ourselves confronting opposed reformist and revolutionary interpretations of racism and racial liberation. For purposes of investigation, however, we may dissolve the polemical opposition into a question: what is the relationship between reformist and revolutionary tendencies in the struggle for racial liberation?
Recognize that you are a member of the Creator's Nation ... " Next, one must not crit· icize anything that is black-owned or black-operated. Rather, one should spend one's money "with one's own kind," to enrich the black man, not the white man. Fourth, because "jealousy destroys from within," no black man should be envious of another's success. Finally, "observe the operations of the white man. He is successful. He makes no excuses for his failures. He works hard-in a collective manner. " 73 THE PROBLEM 21 The "blueprint" makes clear that Muhammad's program consisted in part of stealing the white man's thunder.
Consciousness is activity characterized by a self's being (as the dictionary has it) "aware of that of which another is aware," in a state of mental wakefulness. Somewhat more restrictively, any particular form of consciousness is a way of looking at things; ultimately, such forms become theoretical structures or even world views. Such highly articulated or crystallized structures of consciousness, however, presuppose the more fluid process of conscious activity, that is, sensuous interaction characterized by the attention of a self to its object or by the mutual recognition of two or more selves.