Cornel West - Revision history

RedCustodian: Framing West, Chomsky and Klein as being anti-Zionists is incredibly flawed imo

2024-10-18T19:48:31Z

Framing West, Chomsky and Klein as being anti-Zionists is incredibly flawed imo

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	{{Infobox politician\|name=Cornel West\|image_size=200\|birth_date=June 2, 1953\|birth_place=Tulsa, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|nationality=New Afrikan\|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Anti-Zionism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join over 100 Academics Denouncing the Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey\|date=2022-03-30\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114215151/https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-date=2022-11-14}}</ref>\|political_party=[[Green Party of the United States\|Green Party]]\|image=Cornel West.png}}		{{Infobox politician\|name=Cornel West\|image_size=200\|birth_date=June 2, 1953\|birth_place=Tulsa, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|nationality=New Afrikan\|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]\|political_party=[[Green Party of the United States\|Green Party]]\|image=Cornel West.png}}

	'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 on the [[Green Party (United States)\|U.S Green Party]] ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=STEVE PEOPLES\|newspaper=Associated Press\|title=Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent\|date=2023-10-05\|url=https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119063942/https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823}}</ref> His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. His platform includes providing [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and demilitarizing the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref>		'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 on the [[Green Party (United States)\|U.S Green Party]] ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=STEVE PEOPLES\|newspaper=Associated Press\|title=Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent\|date=2023-10-05\|url=https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119063942/https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823}}</ref> His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. His platform includes providing [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and demilitarizing the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref>

RedCustodian at 17:12, 29 February 2024

2024-02-29T17:12:58Z

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	== Controversies ==		== Controversies ==
	Cornel West equated the [[Neo-Nazism\|Neo-Nazi]] [[Alexei Navalny]] to victims of the Statesian Empire such as [[Leonard Peltier]] and others,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny\|url=https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|retrieved=2024-02-16\|quote=}}</ref> voiced support for the [[Ronald Reagan]] against the USSR,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2021-01-08\|url=https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502210654/https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-date=2021-05-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> equated the Civil Rights leader [[Martin Luther King\|MLK]] to the [[Fascism\|fascist]] [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in an article<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Wall Street Journal\|title=DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics\|date=2023-5-12\|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/desantiss-revolutionary-defense-of-the-classics-florida-western-canon-galileo-caesar-great-books-275268d9\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/UhpsG\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views}}</ref> providing support for [[Ron DeSantis\|Ron Desantis]]'s reactionary changes to [[State of Florida\|Florida]] education curriculum which included replacing Afro-American studies<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies\|date=2023-01-19\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119155258/https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-date=2023-06-01\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> with Classical Learning Tests (CLT), a standardized testing initiative dedicated to restoring "rich intellectual inheritance of [[Europe\|Western civilization]]" to American civilization.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=About CLT\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131211739/http://www.cltexam.com/index.php/clt/about\|archive-date=2016-01-31\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida is considering a ‘classical and Christian’ alternative to the SAT\|date=2023-02-17\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/04/25/sat-act-classic-learning-test-christian-alternative-desantis/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319021557/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/02/17/desantis-classical-learning-test-college-board-ap-sat/\|archive-date=2023-03-19\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Chad Pecknold\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2023-02-09\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219184209/https://twitter.com/ccpecknold/status/1623827947558694913\|archive-date=2023-02-18\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Proposal: We need an alternative to the College Board that orients people to the perennial truths of the great classical and Christian tradition.		Cornel West equated the [[Neo-Nazism\|Neo-Nazi]] [[Alexei Navalny]] to victims of the Statesian Empire such as [[Leonard Peltier]] and others,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny\|date=2024-02-16\|url=https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219051002/https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|archive-date=2024-02-18\|retrieved=2024-02-16\|quote=}}</ref> voiced support for the [[Ronald Reagan]] against the USSR,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2021-01-08\|url=https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502210654/https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-date=2021-05-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> equated the Civil Rights leader [[Martin Luther King\|MLK]] to the [[Fascism\|fascist]] [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in an article<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Wall Street Journal\|title=DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics\|date=2023-5-12\|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/desantiss-revolutionary-defense-of-the-classics-florida-western-canon-galileo-caesar-great-books-275268d9\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/UhpsG\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views}}</ref> providing support for [[Ron DeSantis\|Ron Desantis]]'s reactionary changes to [[State of Florida\|Florida]] education curriculum which included replacing Afro-American studies<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies\|date=2023-01-19\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119155258/https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-date=2023-06-01\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> with Classical Learning Tests (CLT), a standardized testing initiative dedicated to restoring "rich intellectual inheritance of [[Europe\|Western civilization]]" to American civilization.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=About CLT\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131211739/http://www.cltexam.com/index.php/clt/about\|archive-date=2016-01-31\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida is considering a ‘classical and Christian’ alternative to the SAT\|date=2023-02-17\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/04/25/sat-act-classic-learning-test-christian-alternative-desantis/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319021557/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/02/17/desantis-classical-learning-test-college-board-ap-sat/\|archive-date=2023-03-19\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Chad Pecknold\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2023-02-09\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219184209/https://twitter.com/ccpecknold/status/1623827947558694913\|archive-date=2023-02-18\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Proposal: We need an alternative to the College Board that orients people to the perennial truths of the great classical and Christian tradition.

	Reality: The @CLT_Exam		Reality: The @CLT_Exam

Ledlecreeper27: Moved controversies to controversies section

2024-02-17T13:07:36Z

Moved controversies to controversies section

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	{{Infobox politician\|name=Cornel West\|image_size=200\|birth_date=June 2, 1953\|birth_place=Tulsa, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|nationality=New Afrikan\|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Anti-Zionism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join over 100 Academics Denouncing the Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey\|date=2022-03-30\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114215151/https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-date=2022-11-14}}</ref>\|political_party=[[Green Party of the United States\|Green Party]]\|image=Cornel West.png}}		{{Infobox politician\|name=Cornel West\|image_size=200\|birth_date=June 2, 1953\|birth_place=Tulsa, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|nationality=New Afrikan\|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Anti-Zionism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join over 100 Academics Denouncing the Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey\|date=2022-03-30\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114215151/https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-date=2022-11-14}}</ref>\|political_party=[[Green Party of the United States\|Green Party]]\|image=Cornel West.png}}

	'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a ~~Reactionary~~ Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 on the U.S Green Party ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent<ref>{{Web citation\|author=STEVE PEOPLES\|newspaper=Associated Press\|title=Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent\|date=2023-10-05\|url=https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119063942/https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823}}</ref>. His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. His platform includes providing [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and ~~to demilitarize~~ the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref> Cornel West equated the Neo-Nazi [[Alexei Navalny]], to victims of the Statesian Empire such as [[Leonard Peltier]] ~~among~~ others<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny\|url=https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|retrieved=2024-02-16\|quote=}}</ref>, voiced support for the [[Ronald Reagan]] against the USSR<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2021-01-08\|url=https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502210654/https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-date=2021-05-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> equated the Civil Rights leader [[Martin Luther King\|MLK]] to the ~~Fascist~~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in an article<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Wall Street Journal\|title=DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics\|date=2023-5-12\|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/desantiss-revolutionary-defense-of-the-classics-florida-western-canon-galileo-caesar-great-books-275268d9\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/UhpsG\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views}}</ref> providing support for [[Ron DeSantis\|Ron Desantis']] reactionary changes to Florida education curriculum which included ~~the elimination of~~ Afro-American studies<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies\|date=2023-01-19\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119155258/https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-date=2023-06-01\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref>~~, to be replaced by~~ Classical Learning Tests (CLT), a standardized testing initiative dedicated to restoring "rich intellectual inheritance of Western civilization" to American civilization<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=About CLT\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131211739/http://www.cltexam.com/index.php/clt/about\|archive-date=2016-01-31\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida is considering a ‘classical and Christian’ alternative to the SAT\|date=2023-02-17\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/04/25/sat-act-classic-learning-test-christian-alternative-desantis/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319021557/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/02/17/desantis-classical-learning-test-college-board-ap-sat/\|archive-date=2023-03-19\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Chad Pecknold\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2023-02-09\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219184209/https://twitter.com/ccpecknold/status/1623827947558694913\|archive-date=2023-02-18\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Proposal: We need an alternative to the College Board that orients people to the perennial truths of the great classical and Christian tradition.		'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 on the [[Green Party (United States)\|U.S Green Party]] ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=STEVE PEOPLES\|newspaper=Associated Press\|title=Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent\|date=2023-10-05\|url=https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119063942/https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823}}</ref> His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. His platform includes providing [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and demilitarizing the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref>

			== Controversies ==
			Cornel West equated the [[Neo-Nazism\|Neo-Nazi]] [[Alexei Navalny]] to victims of the Statesian Empire such as [[Leonard Peltier]] and others,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny\|url=https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|retrieved=2024-02-16\|quote=}}</ref> voiced support for the [[Ronald Reagan]] against the USSR,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2021-01-08\|url=https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502210654/https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-date=2021-05-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> equated the Civil Rights leader [[Martin Luther King\|MLK]] to the [[Fascism\|fascist]] [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in an article<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Wall Street Journal\|title=DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics\|date=2023-5-12\|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/desantiss-revolutionary-defense-of-the-classics-florida-western-canon-galileo-caesar-great-books-275268d9\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/UhpsG\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views}}</ref> providing support for [[Ron DeSantis\|Ron Desantis]]'s reactionary changes to [[State of Florida\|Florida]] education curriculum which included replacing Afro-American studies<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies\|date=2023-01-19\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119155258/https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-date=2023-06-01\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> with Classical Learning Tests (CLT), a standardized testing initiative dedicated to restoring "rich intellectual inheritance of [[Europe\|Western civilization]]" to American civilization.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=About CLT\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131211739/http://www.cltexam.com/index.php/clt/about\|archive-date=2016-01-31\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida is considering a ‘classical and Christian’ alternative to the SAT\|date=2023-02-17\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/04/25/sat-act-classic-learning-test-christian-alternative-desantis/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319021557/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/02/17/desantis-classical-learning-test-college-board-ap-sat/\|archive-date=2023-03-19\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Chad Pecknold\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2023-02-09\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219184209/https://twitter.com/ccpecknold/status/1623827947558694913\|archive-date=2023-02-18\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Proposal: We need an alternative to the College Board that orients people to the perennial truths of the great classical and Christian tradition.

	Reality: The @CLT_Exam		Reality: The @CLT_Exam
	already exists, and every serious homeschool, high school, and college should be using it!}}</ref>. West has been a sitting board member of CLT since 2022<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=CLT Leadership\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302202734/https://www.cltexam.com/about/leadership/\|archive-date=2022-03-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref>.		already exists, and every serious homeschool, high school, and college should be using it!}}</ref> West has been a sitting board member of CLT since 2022.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=CLT Leadership\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302202734/https://www.cltexam.com/about/leadership/\|archive-date=2022-03-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Politicians in the United States]]		[[Category:Politicians in the United States]]
			<references />
			[[Category:Political candidates]]
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	{{Infobox politician\|name=Cornel West\|image_size=200\|birth_date=June 2, 1953\|birth_place=Tulsa, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|nationality=New Afrikan\|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Anti-Zionism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join over 100 Academics Denouncing the Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey\|date=2022-03-30\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114215151/https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-date=2022-11-14}}</ref>\|political_party=[[Green Party of the United States\|Green Party]]\|image=Cornel West.png}}		{{Infobox politician\|name=Cornel West\|image_size=200\|birth_date=June 2, 1953\|birth_place=Tulsa, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|nationality=New Afrikan\|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Anti-Zionism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join over 100 Academics Denouncing the Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey\|date=2022-03-30\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114215151/https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/\|archive-date=2022-11-14}}</ref>\|political_party=[[Green Party of the United States\|Green Party]]\|image=Cornel West.png}}

	'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Reactionary Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 on the U.S Green Party ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent<ref>{{Web citation\|author=STEVE PEOPLES\|newspaper=Associated Press\|title=Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent\|date=2023-10-05\|url=https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119063942/https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823}}</ref>. His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. His platform includes providing [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and to demilitarize the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref> Cornel West equated the Neo-Nazi Alexei Navalny, to victims of the Statesian Empire such as [[Leonard Peltier]] among others<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny\|url=https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|retrieved=2024-02-16\|quote=}}</ref>, voiced support for the [[Ronald Reagan]] against the USSR<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2021-01-08\|url=https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502210654/https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-date=2021-05-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> equated the Civil Rights leader [[Martin Luther King\|MLK]] to the Fascist [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in an article<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Wall Street Journal\|title=DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics\|date=2023-5-12\|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/desantiss-revolutionary-defense-of-the-classics-florida-western-canon-galileo-caesar-great-books-275268d9\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/UhpsG\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views}}</ref> providing support for [[Ron DeSantis\|Ron Desantis']] reactionary changes to Florida education curriculum which included the elimination of Afro-American studies<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies\|date=2023-01-19\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119155258/https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-date=2023-06-01\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref>, to be replaced by		'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Reactionary Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 on the U.S Green Party ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent<ref>{{Web citation\|author=STEVE PEOPLES\|newspaper=Associated Press\|title=Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent\|date=2023-10-05\|url=https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119063942/https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823}}</ref>. His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. His platform includes providing [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and to demilitarize the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref> Cornel West equated the Neo-Nazi [[Alexei Navalny]], to victims of the Statesian Empire such as [[Leonard Peltier]] among others<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny\|url=https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|retrieved=2024-02-16\|quote=}}</ref>, voiced support for the [[Ronald Reagan]] against the USSR<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2021-01-08\|url=https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502210654/https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-date=2021-05-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> equated the Civil Rights leader [[Martin Luther King\|MLK]] to the Fascist [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in an article<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Wall Street Journal\|title=DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics\|date=2023-5-12\|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/desantiss-revolutionary-defense-of-the-classics-florida-western-canon-galileo-caesar-great-books-275268d9\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/UhpsG\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views}}</ref> providing support for [[Ron DeSantis\|Ron Desantis']] reactionary changes to Florida education curriculum which included the elimination of Afro-American studies<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies\|date=2023-01-19\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119155258/https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-date=2023-06-01\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref>, to be replaced by Classical Learning Tests (CLT), a standardized testing initiative dedicated to restoring "rich intellectual inheritance of Western civilization" to American civilization<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=About CLT\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131211739/http://www.cltexam.com/index.php/clt/about\|archive-date=2016-01-31\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida is considering a ‘classical and Christian’ alternative to the SAT\|date=2023-02-17\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/04/25/sat-act-classic-learning-test-christian-alternative-desantis/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319021557/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/02/17/desantis-classical-learning-test-college-board-ap-sat/\|archive-date=2023-03-19\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Chad Pecknold\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2023-02-09\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219184209/https://twitter.com/ccpecknold/status/1623827947558694913\|archive-date=2023-02-18\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Proposal: We need an alternative to the College Board that orients people to the perennial truths of the great classical and Christian tradition.

			Reality: The @CLT_Exam
			already exists, and every serious homeschool, high school, and college should be using it!}}</ref>. West has been a sitting board member of CLT since 2022<ref>{{Web citation\|author=CLT\|newspaper=CLT\|title=CLT Leadership\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302202734/https://www.cltexam.com/about/leadership/\|archive-date=2022-03-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref>.

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Politicians in the United States]]		[[Category:Politicians in the United States]]

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	'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual who ~~is running~~ for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 as ~~a member of~~ the Green Party. His campaign is based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. ~~He seeks to provide~~ [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and demilitarize the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref>		'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Reactionary Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 on the U.S Green Party ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent<ref>{{Web citation\|author=STEVE PEOPLES\|newspaper=Associated Press\|title=Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent\|date=2023-10-05\|url=https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119063942/https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823}}</ref>. His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. His platform includes providing [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and to demilitarize the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref> Cornel West equated the Neo-Nazi Alexei Navalny, to victims of the Statesian Empire such as [[Leonard Peltier]] among others<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny\|url=https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1758665760870678710\|retrieved=2024-02-16\|quote=}}</ref>, voiced support for the [[Ronald Reagan]] against the USSR<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Twitter\|date=2021-01-08\|url=https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502210654/https://twitter.com/cornelwest/status/23848928873021440\|archive-date=2021-05-02\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref> equated the Civil Rights leader [[Martin Luther King\|MLK]] to the Fascist [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in an article<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Cornel West\|newspaper=Wall Street Journal\|title=DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics\|date=2023-5-12\|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/desantiss-revolutionary-defense-of-the-classics-florida-western-canon-galileo-caesar-great-books-275268d9\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/UhpsG\|retrieved=2024-02-17\|quote=Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views}}</ref> providing support for [[Ron DeSantis\|Ron Desantis']] reactionary changes to Florida education curriculum which included the elimination of Afro-American studies<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ana Ceballos\|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times\|title=Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies\|date=2023-01-19\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119155258/https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/19/florida-rejects-new-ap-high-school-course-african-american-studies/\|archive-date=2023-06-01\|retrieved=2024-02-17}}</ref>, to be replaced by

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	'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual who is running for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 as a member of the Green Party. His campaign is based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. He seeks to provide [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and demilitarize the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>		'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual who is running for [[President of the United States\|President]] in 2024 as a member of the Green Party. His campaign is based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. He seeks to provide [[Universal healthcare\|free healthcare]] and education and demilitarize the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein\|date=2023-08-04\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/\|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref> He endorsed the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation\|PSL]]'s book ''Socialist Reconstruction''.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States\|date=2022-09-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424115236/https://www.liberationnews.org/new-book-socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states/\|archive-date=2023-04-24}}</ref>

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{{Infobox politician|name=Cornel West|image_size=200|birth_date=June 2, 1953|birth_place=Tulsa, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States of America|United States]]|nationality=New Afrikan|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Anti-Zionism]]<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join over 100 Academics Denouncing the Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey|date=2022-03-30|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114215151/https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-naomi-klein-join-100-academics-denouncing-israel-lobbys-attempt-cancel-lowkey/280111/|archive-date=2022-11-14}}</ref>|political_party=[[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]]|image=Cornel West.png}}

'''Cornel Ronald West''' (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual who is running for [[President of the United States|President]] in 2024 as a member of the Green Party. His campaign is based on three goals: anti-imperialism, [[democracy]], and [[environmentalism]]. He seeks to provide [[Universal healthcare|free healthcare]] and education and demilitarize the [[police]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein|date=2023-08-04|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806140034/https://www.mintpressnews.com/shaking-two-party-system-cornel-wests-bid-2024-jill-stein/285443/|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>

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