num_pages: 278
description: A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe 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 revolutiona 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 IntroductionEvery 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 Kings 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 Kingand too few know todaythe 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.
language: English
title: The Radical King
publisher: Beacon Press