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 psychoa...