The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution

The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein is both an interpretation of Malcolm X's life and thought and a meditation on how psychoanalysis and Marxism can illuminate revolutionary politics. Drawing on The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Malcolm's collected speeches, Wolfenstein sets out not to replace those sources but to learn from them--placing Malcolm's voice at the center while critically framing it through Freud and Marx. Trained in psycho...