Democracy Matters Audiobook (Free)

In his key bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis from the scars of racism in American democracy. Competition Matters has turned into a modern classic, still on the net after a decade, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A mesmerizing speaker with a bunch of fervidly committed fans, Western world gives as many as one hundred open public lectures a season and appears regularly on radio and tv. Praised by The New York Situations for his ‘ about Democracy Matters ferocious moral vision’ and hailed by Newsweek as ‘an elegant prophet with attitude,’ he bridges the gap between black and white opinion about the country’s problems.In Democracy Issues, West returns to the analysis of the arrested development of democracy-both in America and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. Inside a strikingly unique analysis, he argues that if America is to become better steward of democratization all over the world, we must 1st wake up to the longer history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our own democracy. Both our failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the problems of Islamist anti-Americanism stem mainly from hypocrisies inside our dealings with the world. Racism and imperial expansionism have gone hand in hand inside our country’s inexorable drive toward hegemony, and our current militarism is the latest manifestation of that get. Even as we are surprised by Islamic fundamentalism, our very own make of fundamentalism, which Western world dubs Constantinian Christianity, has joined forces with imperialist corporate and politics elites in an unholy alliance, and four years following the murder of Dr. Martin Luther Ruler, Jr., insidious racism still inflicts debilitating psychic discomfort on so many of our citizens.

But there’s a deep democratic custom in the us of impassioned dedication to the fight against imperialist corruptions-the last great appearance of which was the civil privileges movement led by Dr. King-and Western world brings forth the effective voices of this great democratizing custom in a brilliant and deeply moving demand the revival of our better democratic character. His impassioned and provocative discussion for the revitalization of America’s democracy will reshape the terms of the raging nationwide debate about America’s function in today’s troubled world.