Malcolm X and Mao came to the same conclusion on the strategy needed to liberate Black people in the US.
They both saw it as an international struggle of an oppressed global majority against a tiny minority of oppressors.
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Malcolm X: “the black nationalists… see the whole struggle not within the confines of the American stage, but... upon the world stage. In the world context they see that the dark man outnumbers the white man. On the world stage the white man is just a microscopic minority.”
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Mao on the US Black struggle:
“It is the handful of imperialists headed by the US, & their supporters... different countries, who are oppressing, committing aggression against & menacing the overwhelming majority of the nations & peoples of the world.”
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Mao continued: “We are in the majority and they are in the minority… I am firmly convinced that, with the support of more than 90 per cent of the people of the world, the American Negroes will be victorious in their just struggle."
(August 8, 1963)
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Malcolm X's Black liberation strategy:
“Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail. As long as your problem is fought within the American context, all you can get as allies is fellow Americans."
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