> The word we should both be using is Communist and yes Malcom X was a communist. "In 1950, the FBI opened a file on Malcolm after he wrote a letter from prison to President Truman expressing opposition to the Korean War and declaring himself a communist."
You are taking things out of context. At the time anti-communism was used and abused to suppress all sort of inconvenient political movements. Saying "then yeah I'm a communist" in defiance didn't make you one.
Also:
https://www.marxist.com/malcolm-x-forty-years-after.htm
> Malcolm X was always a man who was rethinking and recreating himself, but there is no concrete documentation that he was on the verge of becoming a Marxist, or even a socialist.
https://www.socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist...
> Despite the opinion of some so-called Marxist groups in the US and abroad, Malcolm X was not a socialist, and he never claimed to be.
https://socialistresurgence.org/2020/02/21/malcolm-x-black-n...
> His evolution was incomplete—or rather, incompleted. He was not, or was not yet, as Breitman is careful to point out, a Marxist.
Still think it is not correct to oversimply massive worker movements that have toppled governments, the nazis, and the US military as merely college students.
Even if they came from poor families, the founders of the Black Panthers were two college students, not workers. Malcolm X was not a Marxist.
> https://www.city-journal.org/chile-demonstrations
Demonstrations are almost only a fraction of the most activist of the youth. And yet no "spontaneous workers revolt". Also from the article:
> Chile’s middle class, rather than resisting the leftists, has joined the popular uprising. Why would this class, which didn’t exist a generation ago—it emerged out of the relative prosperity associated with neoliberalism and has entered the phase of rising expectations—endorse the revolt?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_Vietnam#:~:text=S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh
Again, college educated, not an oppressed and poor worker.