[Marxism] Review by Stanley Crouch in NYT of _WILL YOU DIE WITH ME?: My Life and the Black Panther Party_

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The New York Times
September 10, 2006

By Any Means Necessary
By STANLEY CROUCH

Book Review of "WILL YOU DIE WITH ME?: My Life and the Black Panther Party"
By Flores A. Forbes. Illustrated. 302 pp. Atria Books. $26.

"Forbes joined the Black Panthers at the end of the 1960's and worked
his way up until he functioned as a bodyguard, an enforcer and a
gunman in the inner circle of the party. As the onetime head of the
Panthers' "military arm," he has eyewitness things to tell us that
have never been made so clear before. In a very low-key,
matter-of-fact style that takes attempted murder, gunplay, beatings,
extortion and arrests as normal occurrences, Forbes pulls the covers
off Newton with so much authority that the case his book makes against
the Black Panther legend will be hard to dismiss.

[..]

"In unparalleled detail , we are given the inside story of a left-wing
group of "revolutionaries" whose organization evolved into a lucrative
criminal enterprise — the first step of a grand design in which the
political structure of Oakland would be taken over."

Full text: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/books/review/crouch.html?ref=review>

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