Manning Marable RIP

[blake 3:17]

I was saddened to hear of the death of Manning Marable, a great leftt wing African American historian.

An obit from Socialist Worker: http://socialistworker.org/2011/04/04/voice-for-black-liberation

From the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/04/manning-marable-obituary

His book Race Reform and Rebellion comes very highly recommended.

[graymouser]

Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, a new and definitive biography that is also a counterpoint to the Alex Haley Autobiography, just came out this week. I'm about 50 pages in and it's great reading. Tragic that Marable passed.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, a new and definitive biography that is also a counterpoint to the Alex Haley Autobiography, just came out this week. I'm about 50 pages in and it's great reading. Tragic that Marable passed.
Yeah, just got it in the mail. I had been looking forward to this book for a long time and was sad to read he died before it was released. I'd love to see the full missing sections of the Haley Malcolm X Autobiography too.

[ChrisK]

This is really sad. I have been waiting for Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. How sad it is that he died before he could see the culmination of many years of research recieved by the public. Rest in peace comrade.

[ChrisK]

I'd love to see the full missing sections of the Haley Malcolm X Autobiography too.

I get the impression that he wanted to unite all of the Civil Rights organizations together to fight for human rights. Far more left than NOI, but I don't think he had developed strong class politics yet. Given enough time he may very well have.

[blake 3:17]

I get the impression that he wanted to unite all of the Civil Rights organizations together to fight for human rights. Far more left than NOI, but I don't think he had developed strong class politics yet.

He was a moderate socialist/Marxist. His opposition to racism and Black opression was informed by a pro-working class perspective. Given the fucked up nature of the US where the unions are so weak and there's no mainstream workers or social democratic party it is hard to fault the guy.

[mosfeld]

R.I.P. He was the editor of the Souls (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/pastissues.html), a progressive journal inspired by W.E.B DuBois which published, amongst other excellent studies, "Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf)". You can browse through past issues and find articles written by him.