revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

Both Malcolm and RAM saw that the
American struggle was necessary to win allies and to isolate the U .S .
government . In the organizational discussions which were held daily for
a month, various aspects of the struggle were analyzed .
While many writers discussed Malcolm's change in philosophy and
internationalization of the Afro-
outlook,
few traced Malcolm's evolutionary development . Malcolm's celebrated
statement concerning some white people not being racist after he made the
Hajj did not represent the end of his development on the question . While
Malcolm was embracing socialism and
ideologically evolving outside of the
confines of Islamic thought before the time of his death, he still maintained
a
position of organizing the black nation independently for national
liberation .
His Hajj statement was released in April after he had made his first
trip to Africa and the Middle East . While Malcolm saw an eventual alliance
between the black movement and
revolutionary whites, he constantly said,
"There can't be any workers solidarity until there is first, Black Unity ." 32
The field chairman asked Malcolm about his
statements of white people
being in Mecca and his feeling that some could be worked with . The field
chairman stated that he
felt Malcolm would lose his black nationalist following
which was his base of support .
an Algerian revolutionary showed him a
Malcolm stated that while in Algeria
picture of himself that looked as
dark as Marcus Garvey, and the statements under the picture made it appear
that Malcolm was advocating the
superiority of people based on skin pigmentation,
i .e ., that darker-skinned Africans were superior to lighter-skinned
Africans . The publication had been circulated by the United States
32 Interview with Malcolm X, June, 1964, New York, New York .