Angela Davis - How Capitalism Affects The Working Class

[@eriktroske6405]

As a white guy who is from a working-class community in Indiana, I once was asked to lead a discussion with the Jeunesse communiste in France for a discussion before and after “Free Angela”, as the American communist in the group. My French wasn’t perfect then, and I didn’t even fully understand everything she had done at that point and maybe didn’t do a great job, but she’s a true inspiration, and decades later, she still stays true to her roots and reminds us why we love her. Why I, as someone from a working-class community that has fallen behind, finds her relevant. Oh, and I still have a retro-style poster of you from that night hanging over my bed years later, which occasionally creeps out guests who are over (Angela is watching!). But if someone shares my values, it’s just a brief laugh over it. Love you, Angela, and I hope to hear you in person at some point

[@joannlewis3559]

People who understand the system don't have a need to separate by politics because they understand that the wheel is pushed by the same animal.

[@Krooksbane]

Do you think that focusing on race, but not finding the link back to the system has become a problem? In other words, is race being used as leverage to distract people from criticizing capitalism?

[@jreamscape]

Krooksbane yes that exactly what’s happening. Not to say that racism is a thing because it is.

[@lakersfansince1991]

It’s not capitalism that’s the problem it’s crony capitalism

[@gannibalof21st]

lol crony capitalism is CAPITALISM. if capitalists blameS for every negative things that occur in a socialist and communist countries aa "its the evil of socialism and communism " then such compartmentalization applies to capitalism. Poverty and race are main tentacles of capitalism that's according to your God fathers of capitalism.

[@kazkellyquest1792]

@@gannibalof21st Marxism is the brainchild of the people you believe you’re fighting. Maybe you should find out how Trotsky was funded. The big boys want a slave labor force like the one THEY created in China. People that are free to own property, innovate and compete are a terrible nuisance.

[@tdavis9610]

Love hearing the queen speak, I wonder how she feels about Prada using her image on their t shirts.

[@josephjasen1293]

tdavis9610 do your homework on this woman. She is the last thing you want to be associated with.

[@waylonbutler6199]

@@josephjasen1293 why do you say that

[@JulieMKi]

@@DefaultUsername-o6r she is brilliant. And yes.

[@adamsmith307]

joseph jasen why not enlighten us

[@spankytag]

Uhhhhh no. Angela Davis has done more for the black awakening/community than most. What evidence do you have that she was involved in Prada appropriating her image? What evidence do you have that she was compensated? And even if she WAS compensated (which I doubt because it’s ducking PRADA we’re talking about here), you bes believe the woman should seek reimbursement if a company uses her image. But again, I seriously doubt she collaborated with them on that. So the haters need to do their research and back tf off

[@uffu2490]

I love how she doesn’t include black Americans as victims of capitalism. The fact that Davis includes poor white Americans is refreshing to hear. No wonder why the FBI hated her

[@nuhaomar9542]

Wow, very informational. I had no idea about most of these things.

[@tvfan14]

I love how many big topics she talks about.

[@dinglebat63]

Jack of all trades, master of none.

[@Andyreally]

@@dinglebat63 and yet here you are.

[@kendallmariah8494]

@@dinglebat63 jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.

[@Andyreally]

@@dinglebat63 what trade are you a master of?

[@LimKaamen]

Been following this Queen Mother since middle school in the early 1970s in the equatorial forest of Central West Africa (believe it or not)! It turns out - as we "discovered" in the early 1990s - our Christian school was CIA-sponsored and financed and had been at least since the 1940s.

[@tootsiePOP745]

what school was it?

[@LimKaamen]

@@tootsiePOP745 All Christian pre-university schools in sub-Saharan Africa were CIA-funded from the early 1920 (after the Russian Revolution of 1917) through to the early 1990s when Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev took power in the Soviet Union. Never looked closely enough into Islamic schools in Africa.

[@TuckG360]

@@LimKaamen With all due respect, can you cite where you got this information? There was no CIA, nor OSS (its predecessor) before the Second World War. Also, while your political leanings are none of my business, Marxism is a failed system, as is Capitalism. Both are malignant economic models that create poverty of the spirit as well as poverty of the people. As President Obama said, "Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty"-- and that's where the USA is at the moment. Until people of color in this country are accorded full and unfettered economic justice and equal opportunity, this is where we will remain.

[@LimKaamen]

@@TuckG360 A couple of decades ago, a retired "Christian Nun" wrote a book about her 30 years' career as a CIA Agent in Africa. I could easily find her name, but there is no point. Cold war politics and the like are becoming irrelevant in Africa despite continued lies. The continent has been the world's fastest growing region for a long time now. The population is very young (about 70% are 20 years old or younger), and growing fast. Will soon reach and surpass 2 billion! In other respects, how come Communist China bailed out the US bankrupt economy in 2008? I was the in Corporate America working for one of the world's largest bank at that time.

[@Joshvs3]

@@LimKaamen the name of the author or title of the book would still be appreciated

[@Shmingleshmangle]

Everyone should watch "The Spider Web: Britain's Second Empire" (it's here on KZbin in full).

[@johnmbatia2706]

thank you

[@ziggyramdas9093]

Thank you, I am sharing this with everyone I know.

[@rolypolypandabear7433]

who else is here in sept 2024, feels very timely

[@b.t.2796]

Time for her to take a dirt nap

[@Vybnn]

Is there a pdf of this anywhere?

[@faatiyah-ayannaapesempress2751]

Angel Davis for President 2024 ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@anirtakj]

This is excellent! Is there a full video anywhere? Thanks for posting.

[@AfroMarxist]

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[@TheGnewb]

She makes sense.

[@pala0028]

Thank you for this!! Do you know where I can find her full speech?

[@AfroMarxist]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qX-smKafmJieZs0

[@jfc4639]

Naomi Klein called this “Shock Capitalism,” in her book 📕

[@whiro8945]

I need to read it, she’s been having interesting ideas about anti-Palestinian rhetoric too

[@halimacandy]

Awesomeness thanks for the review thanks

[@ashleyfrost8457]

Is there a part two? Jk I looked at the description

[@__orlando__]

why isn't everyone watching this right now...

[@krankinthehog4984]

Because we are all not neo marxist revolutionaries who want to overthrow the republic and abolish the constitution

[@__orlando__]

@@krankinthehog4984 says the person watching it lol

[@krankinthehog4984]

@@__orlando__ i like to be informed and study the enemy and listen to their own words and read their own books. My older brother joined the woke cult and tried to get me to submit by coming over and confessing my racial sins because I uphold whiteness because I love freedom and liberalism

[@maad1827]

Krankin The Hog if you wanna understand the enemy you have to rethink how you believe the left thinks about race... cos you just sound wacky lol

[@__orlando__]

@@maad1827 can i ask what she says you disagree with?

[@jamesdemasi7077]

I have been clicking on to you because I found your voice interesting and your high intelligence is good to hear. I do find your your talks general and I think you need more specific examples to help make me see. --Jim DeMasi

[@maeveszy]

She is the smartest person I know of and I believe she has a better grasp on the order of politics than most politicians. If it were between trump, kamala, biden, obama, bush, and her, I’d choose her.

[@alphagenisis1]

Just move to Cuba 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@giyutomioka689]

Love you Ms Davis

[@MaryJaneJones.]

vote green we need a new party.

[@JFLOJUDO]

B Camera op fell asleep on the job

[@jelef001]

A true genius.

[@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466]

She was a hero of the Soviet People, more famous in Russia than she was in the United States

[@TroyBrownTV]

@1:25 there are more black men in jail in America than there are women in jail in the world.

[@Micho55]

on point!

[@neilifill4819]

Yup. All of this.

[@liliarodriguez4363]

Love her!! Omg in my next life I want to be her

[@arricammarques1955]

We are the change with community involvement.

[@natenelson2180]

I’ll stick with capitalism

[@zv1370]

Clearly endorsing the Cloward-piven strategy.

[@rojintel313]

اطلب من مجتمع الدولي فضح وتعرية محور الشيعي. محور الشر..تمثل قمة الفاشية و النازية واحدة الراسمالية العالمية ....

[@kirkwoerner1107]

What happened to Judge Haley anyway?

[@lindaparker6102]

Michaela Angela Davis !

[@rojintel313]

دفاع عن النفس هو حق مشروع في كل قوانين والاعراف دولية سواء كان سياسيا او عسكريا ...

[@bpalpha]

What are they "defending" themselves against?

[@reaceness]

Wow.

[@rojintel313]

اطلب من الرئيس الصيني ان اكون وزيرا للدفاع فورا . ...

[@jancorwinrussell8249]

Preach!. My sister, if you'll accept me--I wouldn't--you have my voice. Preach, My Sister, Preach. 100%

[@lakersfansince1991]

Why do people risk their lives to come to America? Why don’t they all migrate to Cuba or China?

[@sakuiasesamurai1671]

Trust me lots of Africans migrate to China. And the reason most people don’t migrate to Cuba is because the country is unstable and the us blockade on Cuba is making it hard for the countries Economy to flourish

[@bpalpha]

Most don't immigrate to Cuba since the US & the CIA mightily fucked their country.

[@liampatrick3110]

Cult leader

[@jamesdemasi7077]

I am really tired of black and white because of their inaccuracies to describe people. These two words I think cause divisions and the reason why people are unable to unite in humanity.

[@whodoedis9723]

I agree on capitalism being a system that divides. I would say rich vs poor. However Im not convinced on the racial part.

[@NA-ck6cz]

It's not as simple as rich vs poor. It's about property relations.

[@mawandelushozi]

If it that was indeed all there was to it then the poor/working class would have long ago voted themselves out of poverty, and redistributed wealth by means of taxes etc on the rich, simply because they're in the majority. It is important that the poor are further divided, they cannot act as one politically if you want to maintain the conditions that keep the rich rich. This is why racism is so important for capitalism. Racism and anti blackness in particular, has been in place for so long because many benefit materially from it.. To this day.

[@aprilk141]

The benefit to capitalism of racism is it keeps the working class and the poor from coming together.

[@dreadedsage8630]

How else would you divide the working class in a country with such a history when it comes to race in the U.S? It's as genius as it is immoral.

[@ChannelMath]

@@dreadedsage8630 not genius, but completely obvious. In fact, the tactic of finding a wedge like 'race' to divide your enemies predates capitalism, and probably predates all of history

[@peaceisourfriend.1474]

Angela ....... Tell us something making Sense...... Bravo . IF you want tell us ...... Capitalism is make sense....... Why we R"Poor .... U're Rich..... What!.. 😂..... U Not make Sense...... Ohh.... Did I say Loud.....

[@adamsmith307]

Having heard Angela’s take on bourgeois ‘glass ceiling’ feminism which I am in agreeance with. I have to take exception to her take on patriarchy. The same rules should be applied. One can not attribute to white working class men the same privileges as white middle and upper class men.

[@noahsabadish3812]

Privilege is nuanced; there are levels. Even though white working class men do not enjoy all the same privileges as those belonging to the middle and upper classes, they nonetheless benefit from the existing patriarchy within the home

[@adamsmith307]

Noah Sabadish what are you talking about? Every home is different. There are male victims of domestic assault from their female partners.

[@TheSuperRatt]

@@adamsmith307 As there are white victims of PoC bias. And yet, to say that racism against whites is institutional, would be a false statement. The patriarchy, bigotry of all stripes... these are NOT problems at the individual level, but systemic issues across the entire nation... across many nations. We merely suffer the experience of their disease on our societies as individuals.

[@veda1166]

If she loves communism so much why doesn't she live in China or Russia or north Korea.

[@dreadedsage8630]

Those aren't communist countries, and this argument is one that can only be made when you don't give an ounce of thought on the subject.

[@AnaMaria-ei8ib]

None of those countries are actually communist

[@sakuiasesamurai1671]

Russia is capitalist China is capitalist North Korea.. is capitalist

[@bpalpha]

The US isn't completely capitalist (public education, roads, libraries, social security, Medicaid). Why don't you leave to a capitalist eutopia?

[@KarlMarxFanClub]

Welp! You got us! True intellectual here everyone! 😂

[@ryvandertey6631]

LET SEE HER TRUE POLITICAL COLORS !!!! ONE QUESTION : HOW COMMUNISM AFFECTS THE WORKING CLASS , COMRADE ANGELA ???? ASK PEOPLE FROM FORMER OR CURRENT COMMUNIST COUNTRIES !!!!!

[@noahsabadish3812]

global attempts at communism have been directly undermined by the US and its branches such as the CIA

[@voidofmisery4810]

Yo you forgot that caps lock XD

[@bpalpha]

There are none. There are only military dictatorships on Earth at this point in time.

[@willtruth4487]

I've reach the Afro Echo chamber

[@holygrail7372]

Just the working class? 😂 people know deep inside it hurts everyone rich and poor.

[@TheSuperRatt]

The rich don't like to admit it, hell, they might not even know it, but captialism... tyranny, it hurts them, too. Twists them into beasts. Their children too, and their children, and so on...

[@PenzancePete]

I'm working class - now retired. I spent 41 years working on the railway. My father, grandfathers, uncles, cousins were all miners. I'm 100% pure working class. What has capitalism done for me? It's got me central heating, a car, a telephone, a computer, a telephone, a television, a radio, a microwave cooker, a refrigerator, a freezer, cheap food, foreign holidays and medical advances. All of this was invented/devised by capitalism. Socialism brought nothing. In 1980 West Germans were driving around in Volkswagens, Audis and Mercedes-Benzs. East Germans were driving (if they could get one) Trabants. West Germans were going on holiday in Spain. East Germans were getting shot if they tried to leave the country. Socialist Venezuela has imploded. Socialist Zimbabwe was wrecked by the racist Marxist thug Mugabe and his acolytes. The populace eventually found the soviet union out and the entire lot split up into prosperous countries. The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea as surely a worker's paradise - right? This woman is simply spouting word salad. No socialist country has ever succeeded in serving it's citizens. She won't acknowledge that people are individuals and are different. Some are born to lead and some are born to follow and it was ever thus. All socialism teaches us is to be jealous of success as she is telling us. The millionaires and billionaires that she is quoting didn't get their $$$$s and ££££s by sitting around complaining about other people being rich. As ever she continuously plays the race card. Poor black this and poor black that. Socialism only works for you if you're rich - like Angela Davis. If you're not you're condemned to paying high taxes and enduring a poor standard of living. Socialism removes people's aspirations. What's the point of striving and working hard when there's no reward? Socialism starts with a dream and ends with a riot.

[@shelbygael3704]

If this is the only video of her speaking that you have watched then you know nothing. She has also critiqued socialism. Stfu

[@bpalpha]

It's also made you a consummate narcissist. You forgot to mention that.

[@fullmetal929]

Boy howdy, that is a profound misunderstanding of history, economic systems, and international politics. It's crazy that somebody can type so many words while still managing to be so reductive that the end result has exactly 0 meaning or significance.

[@MorrowHay]

you are so bigoted