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Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Wolfenstein

The Victims of Democracy

Malcolm X and the Black Revolution
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-37059-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Malcolm X and the Black Revolution

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

ISBN: 978-0-520-37059-3
Verlag: University of California Press


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 psychoanalytic theory but radicalized by the Vietnam War and the Black Revolution, Wolfenstein reorients his inquiry away from Weberian and Eriksonian models of identity and toward Marx’s dialectical analysis of social totalities. Freud’s insights into psychic life remain crucial, but the study resists reducing politics to private motives, instead tracing how political and historical forces are internalized, lived, and expressed. Along the way, Fanon’s anticolonial psychoanalysis provides a bridge between Malcolm’s revolutionary practice and Wolfenstein’s theoretical confrontation with the categories of race, class, and personality. The result is a book that engages Malcolm X not as an object of detached scholarship but as a revolutionary thinker whose lessons remain urgent for a society structured by racism. Part biography, part theory, and part critical self-reflection, The Victims of Democracy challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between psyche, politics, and the possibilities of liberation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

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