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Malcolm X — Part 17
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You use frequently the word revolution. Is there
@ revolution on warch in the United States at this tine?
Malcoiu £
Bot at the moment. A revolution is like a forest
fire. It burns everything in its way. The people who make
the revolution do not wish to participate in the systen; they
destroy the system. The German word for revolution is
Uewaelzung, which means a couplete overthrow. b
revolution, for the moment, is aot a revolution, because it
condesns the systes and, after having it condemned, it demands #-¢
to integrate the blacks. <A revolution is net ted: a revolution
destroys the system and replaces it by a better systen. As
in the case of a forest fire, the only way of stopping it is
to light yourself another fire which you control and which
serves you to curb and stop the other fire which escapes
your control. This is what happens in Aserica; the whites
have realised that there was in the entire world a poverful
fire, a black world revolution; they have seen that the fire
Q@pproaches America, and, in order to stop it, they have ignited
an artificial fire which is called the black revolt, and they
make use of it to stop the general black revolution which is
developing throughout the entire world.
R.
Can the racial problea in the United States perhaps
be solved within the framework of the present econosic and
@ocial systen?
Malcola Z
Ho.
R.
Then, how can it be solved? eo.
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Can there be a revolutionary change while the
hostility between the white workers’ class and the black workers’
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