The Radical King (King Legacy)

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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X

“The radical King was once 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 may also 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 mind-set and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to on a regular basis people and strange 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 vital 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 actually radical he was once.

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, “Even though much of The usa did not know the radical King—and too few know today—the FBI and US government did. They called him ‘the most dangerous man in The usa.’ . . . This book unearths a radical King that we will be able to no longer sanitize.”

From the Hardcover edition.


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