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A review by gibles0207
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
5.0
4.5. Very good book, I usually don’t like autobiographies but this one was written much better than others. Loved how he broke down the ideology of the party and how it was applied. Entertaining and informative.
Edit: wrote the first part drunk, honestly pretty good but I genuinely think that Newton and his Black Panthers are so inspiring and their ideas about bringing about social change have a lot of merit in a society with such concentrated bourgeois power and a people blinded into apathy by the founding ideals that were never actually followed (America). I especially like the survival programs(mutual aid) and the idea of revolutionary suicide. Obv like meaning and existence is very confusing and I won’t say I’ve figured it out for myself but the idea of following through with your principles/ideologies in the face of death is pretty dope and in a sense is the most one person can do to create the society that they lived in.
Edit: wrote the first part drunk, honestly pretty good but I genuinely think that Newton and his Black Panthers are so inspiring and their ideas about bringing about social change have a lot of merit in a society with such concentrated bourgeois power and a people blinded into apathy by the founding ideals that were never actually followed (America). I especially like the survival programs(mutual aid) and the idea of revolutionary suicide. Obv like meaning and existence is very confusing and I won’t say I’ve figured it out for myself but the idea of following through with your principles/ideologies in the face of death is pretty dope and in a sense is the most one person can do to create the society that they lived in.