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Barack Obama has been called a transformative and transcendental figure, this book shows us just how significant the movement behind him was for the politics of the United States.Horace Campbell examines the networks that made the electoral victory possible and discusses the importance of self-organization and self-emancipation in politics. Situated in the context of the agency of new social forces galvanised in the 2008 electoral season, the book develops a theory of politics that starts with the humanist principles of ubuntu, healing and repa... MORE

Preface and aknowledgments	p. xi
Revolutionary Moments and Ruptures	p. 1
Revolutionary Moments: Lessons from the French and Cuban Revolutions	p. 3
New Concept of Shared Humanity	p. 6
Ubuntu	p. 8
Elements of the Revolutionary Moment	p. 10
Beyond Vanguardism in the Twenty-First Century	p. 15
Classical Music meets Jazz	p. 20
Reparations... MORE and Revolution	p. 23
New Militants and Sites of Politics	p. 25
Conclusion	p. 26
The Political Training of Barack Obama	p. 29
Ubuntu and Non-Racial Democracy	p. 34
Lessons in Ubuntu	p. 36
Toots and the Dignity of Work	p. 38
Training as a Community Organizer in Chicago	p. 40
Searching for Life Purpose and Healing in Kenya	p. 48
Redemption	p. 50
Michelle Robinson: The Personal is Political	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 55
Confronting Racism and Sexism in US Politics	p. 58
The Electoral College and "Three-Fifths of a Human"	p. 63
The Civil War and the Struggle for Democracy	p. 67
Autonomous Organizing and the Harriet Tubman Principles	p. 69
Reconstruction and the Third Phase	p. 71
Counter-Revolution	p. 72
Benjamin Tillman, Sexualized Violence and the Consolidation of Racism	p. 73
Long-Term Legacies of the Third Phase	p. 76
Eugenics and the Ideological Victory of the South	p. 77
Eugenics and Technological Singularity	p. 80
Conclusion: Democratization as a Process	p. 82
Racism and the Old Left	p. 84
Beyond the Limitations of Liberal Thought	p. 85
Grassroots Organizing Confronts the Machine	p. 88
Revolutions by Ordinary People - the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party	p. 94
Obama's Learning from the Ella Baker Principles	p. 95
Beyond Vanguardism	p. 100
The Conservative Counter-offensive in the US before the Rise of the Obama Phenomenon	p. 101
The Attempted Intervention of Jesse Jackson	p. 104
The Democratic Party and the Hierarchy of Power	p. 106
Leaderism, Vanguardism, and the Party Boss	p. 111
Technocrats, Bosses, and Political Advantage	p. 112
From Bosses to Political Consultants	p. 113
The Clintons Inherit the Party Machinery	p. 114
Conclusion	p. 118
Fractal Wisdom and Optimism in the Primary Campaign of 2008	p. 120
Campaigning as a Human Being, not a Black Candidate	p. 121
Hope and Change	p. 123
Scaling, Self-Similarity, and Recursion in the Campaign	p. 125
Ubuntu meets Ubuntu	p. 126
Proving Ground in South Carolina	p. 130
Building a National Presence and Bottom-Up Fundraising	p. 135
Obama's Amazing Money Machine	p. 136
The Struggles in the Primaries	p. 138
The Centrality of Economics and Politics	p. 139
The Intervention of the Youth Vote and the Grassroots	p. 141
The Iowa Caucus	p. 142
The Centrality of Racism in US Politics	p. 144
Internal Collapse of the Vast Clinton Apparatus	p. 147
Conclusion	p. 148
Between the Past and the Future: The Democratic National Convention	p. 153
Burdens of the Past	p. 153
New and Old Forces at the Convention	p. 155
Shadows of the Past and the Denver setting	p. 156
The Promise of a Green Convention	p. 158
T. Boone Pickens and Forgiveness	p. 160
Insiders and Outsiders in Denver	p. 164
The Clinton Brigade in Denver	p. 166
Michelle Obama and the Caucuses	p. 169
The Latino/Hispanic Caucus at the Convention	p. 172
Who are the Latinos?	p. 173
Roll Call and Nomination	p. 174
Acceptance Speech and Marketing the Candidate	p. 175
Conclusion	p. 176
Ground Operation for Victory: Challenging the Ruthlessness of the Wounded Corporate Bankers	p. 179
The Moment of September	p. 186
Ruthlessness and Recklessness	p. 188
The World of Derivatives, Politics, and Ruthlessness	p. 190
Financialization as Economic Terrorism	p. 193
Henry Paulson and the Drama of the Moment of September	p. 195
Elements of the Coup	p. 196
Speechless and Politics	p. 197
Obama and the Presidential Campaign	p. 199
The Legacies of Jesse Helms in North Carolina	p. 202
Respect, Empower, Include - Observing the Ground Operation at First Hand	p. 205
Youth Activists and the Wall of Hope	p. 205
Tolerance and the Networks	p. 206
Rowan County and Salisbury Town	p. 208
Mecklenburg County and Crossing into South Carolina	p. 209
The Nerve Center in Raleigh-Durham	p. 210
A Divided Military	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 212
Beyond Messiahs: Networks for Peace and Transformation in the Twenty-First Century	p. 215
Introduction	p. 215
The Trap of Messianism and Militarism	p. 219
Liberalism, Missionism, and the Long War	p. 224
War as Peace	p. 226
Would Obama End Up Like Toussaint?	p. 227
Networking and Solidarity	p. 229
The Peace, Anti-Racist, and Reparations Nodes of the Revolutionary Process	p. 232
Peace and the Meaning of Work	p. 234
Revolution and the Tipping Point	p. 239
Peace and the Inheritance of Black Liberation	p. 241
Progressive Women and the Peace Movement	p. 243
Building a New Democracy	p. 244
Conclusion	p. 247
Ubuntu and Twenty-First-Century Revolution	p. 249
The Setting and the Challenges	p. 249
Ubuntu, Quantum Politics, and the Revolutionary Moment	p. 255
Environmental Justice, a Fractal Outlook, and Quantum Leaps	p. 259
Ubuntu, Self-Organization, and Self-Mobilization	p. 263
Abraham Lincoln and the Second Revolution in the United States	p. 265
Ubuntu, Self-Organization, and New Leadership	p. 268
New Leadership and Optimism in Society	p. 269
Optimism as a Political Act	p. 272
Notes	p. 276
Further reading	p. 302
Index	p. 309
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Horace G. Campbell teaches at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. He has been involved in the peace and justice movements for decades. His most important book, Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney, is going through its seventh edition. He is also the author of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation.

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