Conclusion
NOW, herein is a prognosis for the war in America — indeed, a plan, believed by the author to be founded in history and constructed from the realities and necessities of our time, a plan which follows through to logical conclusions the implications of the drive for black power.
This plan calls for: 1. A HOLDING ACTION IN THE NORTH, with armed black communities, sympathetic to the Republic of New Africa, and supporting the Republic with money, skills, information, political pressure, and people;
2. A MAJOR DRIVE TO WIN BLACK CONTROL m Mississippi, where a near-majority of black people live, based on the principle of winning consent of the people; convincing black people to take their consent from the government of the United States and give that consent to the government of the Republic of New Africa; this is concurrent With Similar drives for black control in Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.
3. A VIGOROUS MILITARY CAMPAIGN, based on our defense of property in the South purchased by the Republic of New Africa and defense of land over which the Republic claims sovereignty by reason of black people
(a) having lived traditionally on the land and worked it,
(b) having fought for the land and clung to it, and
(c) having taken their consent from the United States and given it to the Republic of New Africa;
4. THE PURSUIT IN THE UNITED NATIONS of the Recognition of the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of New Africa and the right of black people to reparations, including not only money, machinery, factories, and laboratories, but land, from the United States government.
5. THE CULTIVATION OF SUPPORT for the Republic among the Afro-Asians; the achieving of diplomatic recognition from these nations; the seeking of alliances with the Afro-Asians, including the nuclear-armed Chinese, to discourage U.S. federal power from reckless attacks on the Republic.
6. THE USE OF STATE POWER in the Republic to purify and improve education, to end discrimination and unemployment to start and run industries;
7. THE CREATION OF ECONOMIC UNIONS AND A COMMON MARKET between the Republic and the black Caribbean nations, with Africa, Asia, and South America, and, finally,
8. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC ALLIANCES into larger and stronger political aggregates, starting first, perhaps, with a federation linking the black state on the continental U.S. with the black-controlled nations of the West Indies and Guyana.
This is, to be sure, a program of BLACK NATIONALISM. It would be untrue to say that this is the plan which Malcolm X whispered whole into the author’s ear. It is a plan synthesized from the contributions of many, only a few of whom are here recognized. But more than any man the late Malcolm X, who in the last 18 months of his life became God’s surest prophet to this lost black tribe in America, gave me to see it as I have seen it. Therefore, that men may know who we are and what we believe as distinguished from others, I have made bold to call this the MALCOLM X DOCTRINE and we who pursue it THE MALCOlMITES.
Now, brothers and sisters, go forth for all that is just and good. Challenge and defeat the forces of evil — not for water sprinklers or even for dignity in the abstract, but for land and power, the ability to shape our own lives. Go forth and reconstruct the world!
