Cornel West on:"What It Means to Be a Leftist in the 21st Century"
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it......more
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I JUST listened to this speech on the way here -- never get to listen live instead record and replay. This is awesome speaking and I was going to look on democracy now and blog it. This (besides Howard Dean and the BF) is one of the very few persons I agree with almost one hundred percent. Stogie, again, this is redundant but you are AWESOME. Thanks for blogging this. I missed some of it when we stopped for coffee and I was anxious to find it but came here first ...
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