This is an audiobook, read by the Communist programmer Dessalines, of the autobiography “Revolutionary Suicide” by the Communist African American revolutionary, Huey P. Newton, who founded the Black Panther Party.
Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the most successful communist revolutionary group in American history, the Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is smart, unrepentant, and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism.
"Revolutionary Suicide" is Huey Newton's, founder of the Black Panthers, memoir on his life before and during his time leading the the Black Panthers as a radical response to the police brutality and economic depressions imposed on the black community in the United States. What is clear from the first page is that Newton's plan for the Black Panthers was rooted in a deeply researched understanding of ideas from canonical thinkers like Plato and Fanon. This makes sense given the realities Newton faced: a man who graduated high school in inner-city Oakland unable to read or write, taught himself, at age 18, to read by reading and re-reading Plato's "Republic" until it made sense. Newton, with Bobby Searle, studied the laws closely and formed the Black Panther Party to protect the black community from the police and to provide much needed ideological and economic support to the black community, a community the US government was apt to ignore. And for this he earned the ire of the white, upperclass establishment who tried to frame him for the murder of a police officer - a murder he did not commit, could not commit, because the police officer was too busy shooting him while he was unarmed. In the pages of Huey Newton's memoir comes a prescient tale of the realities face by Black America: even when they follow all the rules and try to support each other out of their oppressed position, white America will do everything in its power, illegal or not, to keep them down. And what Huey fought this with was simple: ideas of a world that was better than the one in which we are living.
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