110. Politics with Bloodshed: the Black Panthers

He was the highest development of Black Panther philosophy - Black leadership of a multinational coalition against capitalism  - and was murdered for it by the state.

Some other further readings by philosophers that take the Black Panther Party and its members seriously as a philosophical organization and as philosophers:

- Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist by Judson Jeffries analyzes Newton as a political philosopher

- "Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left" and "I Am We: Dialectics of Political Will in Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party" by Jim Vernon

- I haven't read it, but Common Ground: A Comparison of the Ideas of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard Thurman and Huey Newton by Anthony Sean Neal seems interesting.

- The Man-Not by Tommy Curry draws on several of the Panthers for his analysis of Black males and their 'genred' oppression. Chapter 2 draws on Cleaver's Soul on Ice and his unpublished Book of Lives to analyze the racial-sexual fear of Black males. Chapter 3 draws on Elaine Brown's The Condemnation of Little B to analyze the super-predator myth of Black males and the antiblackness of the Black intellectual class. Chapter 5 draws on Newton substantially, such as his concept of 'revolutionary suicide' to discuss the Black male's lack of 'futurity' and his enduring social and literal death

- Curry also has (so far) published the only philosophy paper on Robert F. Williams, "Robert F. Williams and Militant Civil Rights: The Legacy and Philosophy of Pre-emptive Self-Defense". I found this paper especially helpful for understanding Black armed self-defense and armed-resistance as an intellectual and philosophical tradition