The Radical King
A revealing collection that
restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X
“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working
people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . .
The
response of the radical King to our catastrophic moment can be put in one word:
revolution—a revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a
reinvigoration of our public life, and a fundamental transformation of our way
of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and
plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. . . . Could it be that we
know so little of the radical King because such courage defies our
market-driven world?”, Cornel West, from the Introduction.
Every year, Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an
ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of
the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people
appreciate how truly radical he was.
Arranged thematically in four
parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and
introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King’s revolutionary vision,
underscoring his identification with the poor, his unapologetic opposition to
the Vietnam War, and his crusade against global imperialism. As West writes,
“Although much of America did not know the radical King,nd too few know today,he
FBI and US government did. They called him ‘the most dangerous man in America.’
. . . This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.”
Fonte: http://www.beacon.org
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