I really never expected to be shilling for a candidate like this, but I've been a fan of Cornel West for over 10 years, I don't agree with him on everything ( i'm not a christian) he's the only candidate talking about Cop City or Prison Abolition, he has a better stance on Israel than many leftists, he's constantly name dropping revolutionaries like CLR James or Angela Davis, he say of his campaign that it's "looking at the world through the eyes of what Franz Fanon called The Wretched of the Earth" and saying other things I would never Imagine a Presidential candidate ever saying in a million years. So I think he's gonna get a big following and educate/radicalize a lot of people, maybe even de-radicalize some right wingers.
Anyway that's my spiel, if you're unsure about West's politics -- there has been a lot of just bad faith takes and misinformation out there -- I implore you to listen to one of his recent interviews, like this one with the Mau Mau hour
"In the socialist tradition I would be closer to council communists than vanguard communists, you know "the Soviets Without Bolshevicks" that was what happened at the Kronstadt rebellion when they were Crushed. Soviets were workers organizations so that the vanguard parties were imposing their will upon the workers organizations so that the workers councils got crushed, So people like Pannekoek.. "
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