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Conversation with Eldridge Cleaver: Algiers
wraps, 129 pp, small chip in top of spine, spin creased, covers slightly faded
136 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
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July 5, 2017
"if you're not able to come to terms with the prospect of death, then you have no business at all in defying or confronting or even arguing with the power structure."
"I believe there are two Americas. There is the America of the American dream, and there is the America of the American nightmare. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream, and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. It is the struggle to do away with this nightmare and to replace it with the American dream which should be the reality."
"We have no economic problems in the United States -- we have political problems. I'm saying that what we need to do is to rearrange the system."
"There is no need for anyone to be talking about a way on poverty, for instance, in the United States of America. What we need in the United states is a war on the rich. We need a war on the system of the rich. We need a war on the system that allows poverty to exist in the midst of all those riches."
"I believe there are two Americas. There is the America of the American dream, and there is the America of the American nightmare. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream, and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. It is the struggle to do away with this nightmare and to replace it with the American dream which should be the reality."
"We have no economic problems in the United States -- we have political problems. I'm saying that what we need to do is to rearrange the system."
"There is no need for anyone to be talking about a way on poverty, for instance, in the United States of America. What we need in the United states is a war on the rich. We need a war on the system of the rich. We need a war on the system that allows poverty to exist in the midst of all those riches."
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November 7, 2024
Relevant historically. But not necessarily worth reading otherwise.
November 17, 2014
A snapshot from Cleaver's exile in Cuba, and then in Algiers, after having Ronald Reagan's California government overrule a state supreme court judge's ruling granting Cleaver to be let out on bail following his arrest on trumped up charges.
Much of Cleaver's discussion feels like it's addressing current events, whether that's Ferguson or stop-and-frisk. It is, even to a cynical leftist, uncanny how little has changed in the structural antagonisms black people face in the U.S. Today, one is just much less likely to hear the type of analysis Cleaver presents here, and in his best-selling Soul on Ice, which was brought out by a major mainstream publisher at the time.
Unfortunately, Lockwood is clearly enmeshed in boosterism in this effort, and his dismissal of rape charges against Cleaver - because it doesn't fit his, or his book's view of Cleaver - is shameful and naïve.
Much of Cleaver's discussion feels like it's addressing current events, whether that's Ferguson or stop-and-frisk. It is, even to a cynical leftist, uncanny how little has changed in the structural antagonisms black people face in the U.S. Today, one is just much less likely to hear the type of analysis Cleaver presents here, and in his best-selling Soul on Ice, which was brought out by a major mainstream publisher at the time.
Unfortunately, Lockwood is clearly enmeshed in boosterism in this effort, and his dismissal of rape charges against Cleaver - because it doesn't fit his, or his book's view of Cleaver - is shameful and naïve.
August 22, 2010
Cleaver's life had a really wild trajectory.
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