The Unita Way
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South African overnment-backed guerrilla leader, Jonas SOCIALIST ACTION FEBRUARY 1986 11 Jan. 29 to request U.S. aid.
the slaveholders everything." The Republicans, it said, had "contempt for the character and rights of the colored races" and did not recognize any political rights whatsoever for Black people.
The Northern industrialists wanted to spread capitalism—which is based on wage slavery—into those areas of the continent where chattel slavery did not exist. The slavemasters wanted to spread their system of unpaid labor. The hostility that existed between these two exploitative systems culminated in a bloody civil war that cost more American lives than all other wars fought by this nation to this date.
Black people achieved freedom from chattel slavery as a result of the conflict between these two sets of criminal exploiters, a conflict that was won by the more socially progressive of the two. But the industrial capitalists instituted wage slavery and collaborated in the reenslavement of many Southern Blacks in their new role as sharecroppers and chaingang convict laborers.
Throughout this country's history, the purpose of the U.S. government and the two major political parties of its ruling class has been to protect and increase the wealth of the rich and to put down all rebellions against their rule-domestically and internationally.
As a result of his experiences and studies, Brother Malcolm developed ideas that dovetailed with this analysis.
Malcolm X on U.S. politics On June 28, 1964, at a public rally called to launch the Organization of Afro-American Unity, Malcolm revealed the vast gulf in consciousness and commitment between himself and the many political hucksters and misleaders of Black people. He stated: "We won't organize any Black