Cornel West is a fantastic individual. Politically, I've been aligned with him always. In 2000, he supported Bill Bradley in the Democratic primaries, and Ralph Nader in the general election. In 2008 he supported Barack Obama.
West identifies himself as a "non-Marxist socialist," because while he follows socialism, he does not believe religion to be an opiate of the masses. To be fair to Marx, he sees certain religious practices as an opiate, but some of his writings suggest that he doesn't see religion itself as being such. Still, given the popular interpretation of Marx as such, West is honorable in his denial of the term Marxist. He is a strong leader within the Baptist church and a professor of religious studies at Princeton.
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