Conservative political philosopher Robert George defends his friend and presidential candidate:
2/ People–on the left and right–who identify Cornel West with Marxism misunderstand West, Marx, or both. Brother Cornel rejects Marx's atheism and dialectical materialism, his historical determinism, his account of the class struggle and theory of the base and superstructure.
3/ Cornel is critical of capitalism and supports policies aimed at elminating large-scale economic inequalities, but he does not favor, as Marx did, the abolition of private property or the elimination of markets. Nor does he think violent revolution is inevitable or desirable.
