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Democracy Matters - Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Paperback)
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Democracy Matters - Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Paperback)
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"Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent
prophet with attitude." -Newsweek" West reveals himself as a
thinker of dazzling erudition, whose critiques are inevitably
balanced by an infectious optimism and magnanimity of spirit." -The
Village Voice In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher
Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis
of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has
become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years,
having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A mesmerizing
speaker with a host of fervidly devoted fans, West gives as many as
one hundred public lectures a year and appears regularly on radio
and television. Praised by The New York Times for his "ferocious
moral vision" and hailed by Newsweek as "an elegant prophet with
attitude," he bridges the gap between black and white opinion about
the country's problems. In Democracy Matters, West returns to the
analysis of the arrested development of democracy-both in America
and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. In a strikingly original
diagnosis, he argues that if America is to become a better steward
of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the
long history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our own
democracy. Both our failure to foster peace in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis of Islamist
anti-Americanism stem largely from hypocrisies in our dealings with
the world. Racism and imperial expansionism have gone hand in hand
in our country's inexorable drive toward hegemony, and our current
militarism is only the latest expression of that drive. Even as we
are shocked by Islamic fundamentalism, our own brand of
fundamentalism, which West dubs Constantinian Christianity, has
joined forces with imperialist corporate and political elites in an
unholy alliance, and four decades after the murder of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., insidious racism still inflicts debilitating
psychic pain on so many of our citizens. But there is a deep
democratic tradition in America of impassioned commitment to the
fight against imperialist corruptions-the last great expression of
which was the civil rights movement led by Dr. King-and West brings
forth the powerful voices of that great democratizing tradition in
a brilliant and deeply moving call for the revival of our better
democratic nature. His impassioned and provocative argument for the
revitalization of America's democracy will reshape the terms of the
raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled
world.
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