This thread is Malcolm X on both Capitalism and Socialism... in his own words.
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“I don't know.
But I'm flexible.
As was stated earlier, all of the countries that are emerging today from under the shackles of colonialism are turning toward Socialism.”
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Most of the countries that were colonial powers were capitalist countries, and the last bulwark of Capitalism today is America.“
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You can't have Capitalism without racism.”
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This was just three months prior to his assassination.
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You show me a Capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
He cannot be anything but a bloodsucker if he’s going to be a Capitalist.”
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We find that the nations in Africa are developing socialistic systems to solve their problems.”
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I hope he really understood what he was saying.
He mentioned that while he was in some of those Scandinavian countries, he saw no poverty.”
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Everyone was getting education, everyone had decent housing, decent whatever – they needed to exist.
But why did he mention those countries on his list as different?”
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And this is the richest country on earth.”
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As long as you don’t know what’s happening on the outside, you’ll be all messed up dealing with this man on the inside.
I mean what they use to solve the problem is NOT Capitalism.“
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So what you and I should do is find out what they are using to get rid of poverty and all the other negative characteristics of a rundown society.”
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”It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of Black against white, or as a purely American problem...
We are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.”
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