Cornel West, the progressive activist and professor, introduced a presidential marketing campaign on Monday with the People’s Party, a 3rd get together led by a former marketing campaign workers member for Senator Bernie Sanders.

“I enter in the quest for truth, I enter in the quest for justice, and the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice — what I’ve been trying to do all of my life,” Dr. West stated in a campaign video posted on Twitter.

In the video, Dr. West stated he had determined to run as a third-party candidate as a result of “neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon, about Big Tech.” He known as former President Donald J. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, a “neo-fascist,” and President Biden a “milquetoast neoliberal.”

Dr. West has taught at Yale, Princeton and Harvard and is at present a professor of philosophy at Union Theological Seminary. He is understood for his progressive activism, together with his sharp criticism of former President Barack Obama.

His marketing campaign video emphasised a listing of points, together with wages, inexpensive housing, abortion rights, common well being care, local weather change and “the destruction of American democracy.”

The People’s Party was based by Nick Brana, who labored on Mr. Sanders’s marketing campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, however later broke away. The get together tried to recruit Mr. Sanders after his 2016 marketing campaign, however he declined to become involved and once more sought the Democratic nomination in 2020.

“Do we have what it takes? We shall see. But some of us are going to go down fighting,” Dr. West stated in his announcement video, leaning into the digicam and exaggeratedly enunciating the syllables of “fighting.” “Go down swinging with style and a smile.”