> 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.