Suicidio revolucionario y tradición de resistencia civil: Huey P. Newton

Hernán Neira

doi:10.12795.06

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Hernán Neira Universidad de Santiago de Chile https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-7242

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795.06

Keywords:

Revolutionary suicide, civil desobediente, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Huey Pierce Newton, Henry David Thoreau, political violence

Abstract

Our work analyses revolutionary suicide, as it was conceived by Huey Pierce Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Its historical-philosophical context is some political revolutionary self-sacrificial theories. These theories underpin both the link and the difference between Newton and other theories of civil resistance. Our method consists in focusing mainly in Newton’s essays entitled To Die for the People (1972) and in his autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide (1973). The originality of our proposal is based on the fact that the subject has scarcely been developed and that it was even absent in the special issue about the Black Panther Party published in 2017 by the Journal of African American Studies. Our conclusion asserts that self-sacrifice is the key that allows Newton him to embrace, renew and transmit a singular inflexion of civil resistance tradition, which also stems from some authors who are rarely quoted by Newton.

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Author Biography

Hernán Neira, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Hernán Neira ha publicado los relatos A golpes de hacha y fuego (Editorial Andrés Bello, Santiago, 1995) y las novelas El sueño inconcluso (Editorial Planeta, Santiago, 1999) y El naufragio de la luz (Ediciones B, Barcelona, 2004). Asimismo ha publicado los ensayos filosóficos El espejo del olvido: ensayos americanos (Dolmen Ediciones, Santiago, 1997), La ciudad y las palabras (Editorial Universitaria, Santiago, 2004) y Visión de los vencidos. Estudio y transcripción de las Memorias de Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru (Editorial Universidad de Santiago,2009). También ha colaborado en los diarios El Mercurio (Chile), El País(España), revista Ecos de España y Latinoamérica (Alemania) y The International Literary Quarterly, Nueva York.

Es profesor de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

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