Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten
Reihe: Black Lives
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten
Reihe: Black Lives
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4333-5
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Huey P. Newton was called many things in his time: revolutionary, genius, criminal, even the most surveilled human being in world history. Yet, little of the truth about him is known today due to persistent distortions of his legacy as co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
In this much-needed intellectual history, Delio Vásquez establishes Newton as a true philosopher. Newton developed innovative theories for how the most oppressed could spearhead revolutionary change in a rapidly developing technological society. Inspired by his ideas, the Panthers forged alliances with Black student unions and street gangs, Hollywood elites and poor whites, the gay liberation movement and Third World nations.
Newton left behind dozens of unpublished manuscripts analyzing politics, feminist thought, education, philosophy, evolutionary biology, and theology – texts presented here for the first time. Vásquez also puts into proper perspective Newton's late descent into addiction and madness – a direct effect of US government techniques of cognitive war that targeted his body and mind in ways that remain all too relevant today.
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Black Panther Party Ten Point Program (1966, 1972)
1. Consciousness
2. The Defense of Life
3. The Theory of Intercommunalism
4. The Soul Breaker
5. The Structured Vehicle and the Revolutionary Defense of Community
6. The Question of the Most Oppressed
7. Contradictions of Power
8. Technology of Madness
9. Life of the Mind, Politics of the Street
Appendix: The Intellectual Legacy of Huey P. Newton
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