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Democracy Matters
- Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
- Narrated by: Cornel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Praised by The New York Times for his "ferocious moral vision", West, in this vital sequel to his major best seller and contemporary classic Race Matters, returns to the analysis of what he calls the arrested development of democracy, both in America and in the Middle East, with a hard-hitting diagnosis. A callous free-market fundamentalism, an aggressive militarism, and an insidious authoritarianism are driving a bullying imperialism.
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"Uncompromising and unconventional.... Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude." (Newsweek)
"West reveals himself as a thinker of dazzling erudition, whose critiques are inevitably balanced by an infectious optimism and magnanimity of spirit" (The Village Voice)