Huey P. Newton (1942–1989)
Author of Revolutionary Suicide
About the Author
Image credit: Image of Huey P. Newton from national Archives Footage By Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1935- (Most Recent)From: Series: Motion Picture Films and Video Recordings, ca. 1936 - ca. 1985Record Group 65: Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1896 - 2008, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66559222
Works by Huey P. Newton
Essays from the Minister of Defense 4 copies
The Last Speeches of Huey P. Newton 4 copies
Prison, Where is Thy Victory? 3 copies
Huey Newton Talks to the Movement about the Black Panther Party, Cultural Nationalism, Sncc, Liberals, and White… (1968) 2 copies
Black Politics : A Journal of Liberation Vol. 1, #4 & 5: Special Issue -- Huey P. Newton (1968) 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Newton, Huey P.
- Legal name
- Newton, Huey Percy
- Birthdate
- 1942-02-17
- Date of death
- 1989-08-22
- Burial location
- Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, California, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Monroe, Louisiana, USA
- Place of death
- Oakland, California, USA
- Cause of death
- murder
- Places of residence
- Oakland, California, USA
- Education
- University of California, Santa Cruz (BA|1974|Ph.D|1980)
Merritt College (AA|1966) - Occupations
- political activist
- Relationships
- Newton, Fredrika (spouse)
- Organizations
- Black Panther Party (co-founder)
Members
Reviews
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Statistics
- Works
- 21
- Also by
- 5
- Members
- 919
- Popularity
- #27,917
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 29
- Languages
- 2
The biggest frustration here is that he never really explains deeply some of his positions - I'm thinking primarily here of his ideas about intercommunalism. I don't know if he just never wrote more articles answering questions on the topic or what but I didn't really get a good grip on what he's talking about, which is annoying because it seems to have been an important part of his later ideology. Overall the impression you get is of someone who is serious about working in the Marxist tradition (he rejects the term Marxist because of its connotations with dogmatic people who believe in re-runs of 1917) - he talks constantly about dialectics, he references Mao, Che, Marx, Lenin (both directly and through borrowed metaphors etc), he focuses on the economic dimension. He constantly criticises himself and previous party positions and comes across as highly honest and dedicated. I came away from the book impressed by a revolutionary hero.… (more)