Angela Davis - Why I am a Communist (1972 Interview)

[@Ms9mmBeretta]

I know this is beside the point, but her Afro is outstanding.

[@michaellwalker8748]

Ashley Campbell Black hair is never besides the point.

[@Ms9mmBeretta]

@Northern Wealth Anarchy Perimeter she looks better than your mother. And you sound like a bastard child.

[@MrBritishNinja]

@@Ms9mmBeretta the afro hides a giant brain

[@Ms9mmBeretta]

@Jar Head No baby, I got you AND him real mad. Mad at my Black Pride. You came to MY thread with the shits. Don't come here with the bullshit or you WILL get roasted. Just like the sun roasts you.

[@Ms9mmBeretta]

@Northern Wealth Anarchy Perimeter LOL I'm not mad at you, I pity you. I'm making fun of you. You're not man enough to make me mad. A person who can't even stand out in the sun for over 15 minutes can't talk sideways out their mouth to me.🤣🤣🤣🤣 go worry about skin cancer bitch, don't worry about me. LMAO

[@chloeratchford4854]

Her calmness, confidence and knowledge to answer every question is EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE

[@timberrr1126]

She has a lethargic response.

[@VolkColopatrion]

An answer to everything is not something that exists. A creationist can be calm.

[@LogoLamont]

Communism doesn’t work. It’s not a pro human or pro rights system. A lot of blacks like the idea of communism bc it *PROMISES* black people what we love most...........free shit!

[@LogoLamont]

Abhishek Bhuyan so you’re a commie, I’m guessing. Where has communism worked? Do you know anything about Mao Zedong, Joe Stalin, VI Lenin, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Ho Chi Minh, the Castros, Pol Pot and the khmer Rouge, the Bolshevik Revolution? Do you know anything? It’s all about domination, all about control. Literally murdering all political dissidents. Please explain to me why you think this is the answer. Go!

[@LogoLamont]

Abhishek Bhuyan that was one of the worst defenses of communism I’ve ever heard. You didn’t even answer the simple question I asked you bc you can’t lol 🤡 How about you go live in a communist country since you love it so much, I bet you won’t. You’re equating two things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. You just wanna murder people who don’t agree with you politically which is not at all the same as the American Revolution and you know that but won’t admit it. But that’s why you people will never come to power in this country bc you’re all bark and no bite. You’re not going to kill anyone or actually physically do anything. You’re just a punk or what’s known as a useful idiot. So you even want to kill blacks who don’t support communism, based on their political ideology? I thought black lives matter? 🤔 do you see the hypocrisy there? I’m totally against communism but I don’t believe communist should be rounded up and executed for their beliefs, no matter how ridiculous. But I have something called *DECENCY* something you and those of your ilk lack. Retire!

[@rocknrolldoll5219]

Gosh, I love her voice - I could listen to her all day ✊🏽🖤 Relevant still. She is the epitome of a strong, black woman.

[@RapidBlindfolds]

she's so beautiful too

[@allypoum]

She has a really sweet voice it is true. What a comrade.

[@rocknrolldoll5219]

beertricks stunning to look at, I agree.

[@rocknrolldoll5219]

Red Tide absolutely ✊🏽🖤

[@IsisMami215]

Most black women ARE strong because they have to be. For future reference its NOT a compliment....do some research I suggest starting with the dictionary.

[@LTBudrich]

"... and we know there must be something good about, or else the man wouldn't be coming down on you so hard." TRUTH.

[@pmadood6970]

No, that's just a child's logic. Seriously, that's exactly how children think. Why don't you tell that to a LEGAL immigrant that lived through Communism? They're not white and they will rip you a new one for saying stupid shit like that.

[@bentonja668]

I agree. By that logic, when Angela Davis praised the "glorious name" of Vladimir Lenin in the Soviet Union while accepting the Lenin Peace Prize and we know that Lenin was responsible for the "Red Scare" in which at least 100,000 people were murdered by the state, what "good" was it that those people knew that lead to their murder? Realize please that in this scenario, Lenin represented "the man." And if you think "the man" comes down hard on people in the USA, we can't hold a candle to people like Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Kim Jong Il etc. Where is America's Stalin? Where is America's Hitler? We haven't had them. They come from authoritarian regimes like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Slavery in the US was horrific but it pales in comparison to these regimes.

[@shhh.im.thinking3069]

@@bentonja668 there we go again lmao. Capitalism killed more people then you can make up for communism, ok? So your argument back at you. What can you say in defense? People dying under capitalism is somehow better?

[@GuyUWishUWere]

Manning johnson tried to warn this woman and the rest of his people about communism. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKazXoqMnMueg68

[@GuyUWishUWere]

@@shhh.im.thinking3069 prove that capitalism has killed more people thsn communism.

[@technicolorbarf6734]

I love listening to this woman talk

[@emmanuelbonapart6852]

The true and only PragerU ^

[@donnieraczynski572]

nah she’s an insane criminal

[@Todesking69]

@@emmanuelbonapart6852 the true and only Jew lover POS

[@mizzou1016]

That’s not a woman or even a human. Communists are sub humans scum

[@tomevers6670]

Ask her to tell you about her ancestors being colonizers and slave owners…..

[@tat_twam_asi]

Hello from Russia

[@OGMeatball]

Сергей Алексеев I take it you were searching the Bolshevik Revolution ? This was recommended to me after seeing what KZbin would provide me , of course . It’s always so relevant to this . "We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the negro minority against the Whites, we will endeavor to instill in the Whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the negros. We will aid the negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the negro will be able to intermarry with the Whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause." - Israel Cohen, General Secretary of The World Zionist Organization, from his book "A Racial Program For The 20th Century" (1912), read into the Congressional Record by Congressman Thomas Abernathy, U.S. House of Representatives (Mississippi, 4th District), on June 7, 1957, Volume 103, pg. 8559, third paragraph (left column).

[@dereckandre3485]

@@OGMeatball They have been using this tactic here in the US 100 years before its founding.

[@timberrr1126]

Russian brainwashing kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmnKl4SooNasgMk

[@terrywilliams9327]

@@timberrr1126 Tim, communism fell with the Soviet Union in early 1990s. It was not a perfect political or economic system, but some of the ideas were good. Communism had to be demonized by the U.S. for various reasons, but Ms. Davis was just saying that some of its ideas were relevant to her given the history of racism, poverty, segregation, Jim Crow laws and ingrained white privilege in the U.S. at the time. By the way, I am a southern, black woman who loves Russia!

[@timberrr1126]

Blacks in Europe don’t carry the stigma of oppression that those in America have. So, Russia may be free of stigma too. In my opinion, people are naturally tribal. To be respected in America, Blacks should show interest in Africa., use some of their fashions. The colors are more harmonious to their skin color.

[@alexanderson4497]

It isn't so much that there isn't anything wrong with Communism, but rather that the struggle against it by the US and other Capitalist countries has always been a monetary struggle and a white supremacist rally. The US for instance, spends endless amounts of Capital to ensure the supremacy of Capitalism abroad which Capitalism by it's very design is tied to the exploitation of what is considered "Lesser" races by the Anglosphere. So if you wonder why the allure of Communism is gaining traction as well as Socialism specially by people of color, it's because these two systems are alternatives to the one that has oppressed them for generations.

[@unai49999]

@@MegzeeR kkkeep telling yourselve the capitalist countries doesn't.

[@MegzeeR]

@@unai49999 telling myself what? the truth? Pick up a book once in a while and LEARN it yourselves. Lenin, Mao both were Marxist communists who went through their countries, murdered MILLIONS each to keep the "oppressors must die" mantra going because that's all they had as a reason for their power. So they had to keep finding new oppressors that are still keeping "the proletariat" in such dire straights so then the next sub human targets were picked for genocide. Then after they murdered all the farmers who new how to actually work farms, no one was left who knew how to so millions died of famines following. In order for communism to be installed, the new govt must first come in with military might and remove all vestiges of the previous govt before they can hand over the commerce rights over to the people, right? Only that part never seems to happen because once these dictators got all the power of both the commerce and military then they'd just start eliminating all the anti government working/academic/professional class citizens saying that obviously it's too soon to turn everything over to the people because there's still too many resistance factions that still need dealt with. Sound familiar? At least in capitalism the power of the military and govt are separate from the commerce control. So when you insist on believing your own revisionist historical accounts don't get all bothered by facts and all because that just ruins your high of rage and hatred toward your perceived enemy. It's called DELUSIONAL reality syndrome because living in it keeps you victims instead of admitting your too scared to take responsibility for your own ignorance.

[@unai49999]

@@MegzeeR have you noticed that I didn't say comunists didn't massacre ppl??? I'm just pointing capitalist countries are same shit but different smelling.

[@unai49999]

@@MegzeeR WoW you really must feel offended by my opinion, don't you?

[@unai49999]

@@MegzeeR american ppl after invading 30k countries prospecting for oil "yOh, cOmMuNiSm DiSrEsPeCtS HoOmAn RiGhTs"

[@shottakid383]

Around 2017-2018 i was just watching an Netflix movie I think called “13TH” directed by “ Eva DuVernay “ about a week or two prior & the one segment of that movie that capture my soul was when I learned about Ms Davis & what’s She’ve accomplished as an black panther ..I remember working in the Esplanade Gardens in Harlem around 147th & Lenox. I was sitting at my post & I heard this soft familiar voice talking on the phone in the lobby .. now initially you don’t think that’s the person because wouldn’t think that person would be in that section of Harlem, or in that building at that time .. soo I was like “naaaaah can’t be “& kept writing in my book log ... then I said to myself “nah that voice is to familiar” .. I look to my left & it was her MS ANGELA DAVIS .. I had to acknowledge her .. I told that women it was an pleasure to actually meet her shook her hand & all .. i was 30 at that time I’m 32 now but I know some things on our black history .. & to actually meet her out of all the the famous ppl we see in New York .. she was the first person .. I’ve EVER APPROACHED!! On an groupie type level .. I will never forget that day ever .. I wish I had my phone to take an pic, but they don’t allow us to have phones .. this lady represented herself in court facing soooo many years .. walked in that courtroom & as an natural black strong queen & left out the same way .. AFRO & all✊🏿✊🏿 & she’s still as beautiful as she was then!!!.. MS. ANGELA DAVIS .. my name is Tabias barnes .. I still work in Harlem as in security but I will never forget you !!! Your soo iconic to the black community...❤️

[@fourthinternationalist_1917]

Red Salute from India Comrade! ✊🏾

[@roishonbowman6174]

Her intellect and composure is soooo attractive!

[@AmberAmber]

Agreed - Gorgeous Mind & aesthetically lovely human - so delighted by her truth bombs!!❤✊🖤🌈😘⚕🧼

[@NBLOOD1990]

women like her are going instinct

[@AmberAmber]

@@NBLOOD1990 I am gonna hope that's not true cos our world needs a lotta Angelas now - more than ever!! ✊🏼🖤⭕❌🇨🇦❤💔❤

[@timberrr1126]

Russian brainwashing and demoralization methods kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmnKl4SooNasgMk

[@marselluswallace6]

She has good communication skills. Does not mean she has good intellect though. Especially because Marxism is a horrible ideology.

[@awhowell]

I love this short interview, Angela Davis shows what we have in common, which is a desire to liberate the oppressed people of the world from the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

You're the bourgeoisie. When they come. They will come for you.

[@myrikke6391]

@@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 The bourgeoisie are people who own private property. I doubt some random KZbin commenter is part of that small minority.

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

@@myrikke6391 your ideology is swiss cheese.

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

@@myrikke6391 u guys cant even handle 6 city blocks. Asking for handouts and getting your asses handed to you by the police and random citizens. You're all a joke.

[@myrikke6391]

@@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 Are you talking about CHAZ? CHAZ is some liberal bullshit, not a single fucking communist gives a shit about CHAZ lol. Second, Marxism is by far probably one of the most detailed and developed political ideologies ever. Try reading some Marxism before you shit on something you know nothing about. There are strict revolutionary methods derived from historical materialism, neither of which have anything to do with something like fucking CHAZ lol. Communists want to abolish taxes, and have earn the work they produce. This is what socialism is. No communist wants handouts, and especially not from the bourgeois state, you bad faith cunt.

[@maoist-gonzaloist-prachand6455]

Your's is one of the most consisently good and criminally underrated among leftist channels. Red salute to you comrade!

[@AfroMarxist]

thank you

[@BB-xm6hy]

Can you please explain to me why you're a Maoist? Genuinely interested.

[@BB-xm6hy]

@Bruno56 exactly. fuck communism

[@legrandfromage9682]

Western leftists are scared of black marxists, that's why

[@OGMeatball]

"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the negro minority against the Whites, we will endeavor to instill in the Whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the negros. We will aid the negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the negro will be able to intermarry with the Whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause." - Israel Cohen, General Secretary of The World Zionist Organization, from his book "A Racial Program For The 20th Century" (1912), read into the Congressional Record by Congressman Thomas Abernathy, U.S. House of Representatives (Mississippi, 4th District), on June 7, 1957, Volume 103, pg. 8559, third paragraph (left column).

[@Kakashi75]

Just found your channel comrade and it is a goldmine. Solidarity comrade ✊🏽

[@AfroMarxist]

Thank you, I appreciate it

[@JerrellXotiikClemmons]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4q3cqKui66kebs

[@mercharris5266]

We will SMASH you. Easy work

[@Kakashi75]

Merc Harris whatever you say

[@mercharris5266]

Curly Haired Saiyan travel never been cheaper, thanks capitalism. Go to one of many failed communist states south of here

[@jacobpetitta7038]

I’m don’t identify as a communist politically and probably never will. Yet I understand why people do and why it is needed in this context. It’s cool to hear other POV on stuff.

[@Zhicano]

Come to our side we have tacos

[@Scarz3ny]

Yeah embrace totalitarianism it will great, power to the people...For the first month then when all resources have run out we can all live on each other's faeces and then die of hunger and disease

[@Zhicano]

SIMCARZ 3ny If only that we’re true. Why would the Soviet Union exist for 70 fucking years?

[@Zhicano]

k b It’s mostly Anarchists

[@abandonedchannel281]

k b fuck you too

[@evonrn2000]

People are not dangerous....Ideas are 🧠.

[@dubbatrubba1759]

Angela Davis - I just found out my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Howdy Pilgrim!! 😂😂

[@Dakatari]

Angela waa so ahead of her time talented, intelligence, beauty a triple threat that the world wasn't ready for.

[@redpen1917]

Your entire channel is absolutely fantastic!

[@marktwine9126]

😱

[@shaungordon9041]

The way she speaks, the way shes so calm, the intellect, they she looks when shes paying attention, her eyes smh Lord this woman is one of the many definitions of BEAUTY! ❤❤ I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS WOMAN

[@ethanhartleyhastings2256]

Her voice is so soothing and pedagogical

[@Keithlfpieterse]

"SALUTE!" Like a good wine, Angela has aged well! RESPECT!

[@caleblightfoot6397]

‘Red’ wine

[@Keithlfpieterse]

@@caleblightfoot6397: The very best!!! Stick to your hooch.

[@AmberAmber]

Amazing Channel & Content - so glad you exist ☆♡🖤✊🖤✊❤❤❤❤🌸🌸🌸🌸🧼⚕🌈

[@christophermanley3602]

Love her voice. And what she says with it.

[@marktwine9126]

😱

[@Todesking69]

This bitch ain’t saying shit….

[@katharinaritte8160]

Preach, comrade!

[@GuyUWishUWere]

Manning johnson tried to warn this woman and the rest of his people about communism. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKazXoqMnMueg68

[@Master00788]

What is it with people in this comment section thinking they can meaningfully talk about a topic they, literally, know nothing about besides some catchphrases?

[@marktwine9126]

hi smarty thanks to this f.. capitalism you have the technology to send me the message. You have all the conveniences of life and all of this is because of capitalism, freemarket economy. If you don't like it you can always move to Cuba.

[@Alan-Classified]

@@marktwine9126 Absolutely pathetic. This is the best the capitalists have to muster? Capitalism did not invent the technology we have, workers did. Infact, the internet your using right now was invented thanks to the US government and not the "freemarket" (and you being the smarty pants you are, know that when government does things its socialism). People in the US can't even move to Cuba (which is not socialist, in reality) because the US has put Cuba under a murderous embargo 62 years. And no it wasn't because "anything is okay when its against communists, communists are subhuman scum", it was (according to the US State Department) done to "while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government." If you don't believe you can google the quote, and you can google anything else to check if it's true here.

[@arvinpareftsid2039]

The interviewer is very articulate

[@lIlIlIlIlIIIlIllIIllIII]

3:02 is where she actually answers the question. There is a lot of run-around talking up until this point. IMO she provides an admirable answer, but essentially just says she wants the best for those who have been oppressed and all those thereafter. No real discussion of the political or economic rationale

[@lodovicoconrado3297]

Yeah, honestly "love" is a shitty answer. Most people suck and I fucking hate them, I am a communist anyway.

[@lIlIlIlIlIIIlIllIIllIII]

@@lodovicoconrado3297 I have never really heard anyone give a compelling reason as to why they are a Communist

[@wyattnyfeler7270]

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||a it doesn’t work there’s to much power in the government we need to minimize government involvent to basic services like schools, roads and national defense and let a competitive marketplace give people the best quality and cheapest products and services they can get which will not work in communism

[@lodovicoconrado3297]

@@wyattnyfeler7270 Yeah let's just give too much power to corporations

[@MatauReviews]

@@lIlIlIlIlIIIlIllIIllIII I detest the state, capitalists and wage slavery. I wish to see either state socialism in my lifetime or a global communist society (stateless, classless, moneyless) in my descendants lifetimes. Capitalism is unsustainable and inefficient deliberately for the sake of the owning class. Nobody on earth has to be homeless or starving. This scarcity is deliberately manufactured and is literally killing our ecosystem. We need to have an economic system in which the workers who produce the value in the economy own the means of their own production. Rather than individuals or corporations who have enough sway to buy elections. I want freedom. Positive freedom to achieve one's goals. Material freedom. Real freedom. I cannot be free in a cinder of a world made only for the ultra-wealthy. Oh and also in the US our Neoliberal Capitalism is built off of the backs of black, brown and indigenous people. It harms everyone in different ways. But it's important to recognize one's own unique privilege. I am a white man. Even though I am privileged there is a reason I fight for this beyond ideological. It simply is the only way for our species to survive in both a material sense and a spiritual one. How's that?

[@sashamonae4359]

She speaks so well and so beautifully!!! I love this woman so much.

[@kamaljubae]

I want to be a Communist since it's a beautiful ideology. It's just hard when every Communist country (I know about) ended up corrupt and oppressive af. So despite my hatred for capitalism and the many downfalls it brings. I would prefer it over communism bc it's the lesser of two evils as far as I can tell. Atleast in practice

[@childishumehara9890]

I honestly cant tell if you are trolling or not but either way you've made more sense than any of the nuts praising it in your skeptical take on it alone. That's sad.

[@TheJumboBurrito]

there have actually been many successful communist revolutions that were very peaceful and it doesnt take much research to find them. but i would implore you to ask this question: how many people have died from the unjust wars in the name of preserving capitalism in america? the iraq war is a war over oil, the vietnam war was unjust and caused the deaths of many young people, i would argue even the civil war was fought over the indsutry of selling people considering capitalism and racism are very much intertwined. communism seeks equal rights. the problem with stalin was totalitarianism. the problem with mao was totalitarianism. communism seeks to equalize not terrorize. look into anarchism and youll see what i mean.

[@childishumehara9890]

@@TheJumboBurrito Like who? You are comparing the war machine to capitalism itself and that isnt accurate. Capitalism and racism have nothing to do with each other. Everytime communism is enacted it breeds some for of violence.

[@TheBatugan77]

KS... Evil is evil. Under any system.

[@TheBatugan77]

@@TheJumboBurrito War, no matter how 'justified', blows goats. The US is still villified by entering WW2 too early, too late, or wrongly all together. But the Nazi Holocaust consisted of some people putting other people into ovens. The horror of even imagining such evil precludes me from answering the usual journalism stuff... who, what, when, why...etc. That all happened under a policy of appeasement. I've also walked part of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines - and met survivors. Horrific. And very little 'blacks/whites' involved.

[@ebut333uoy]

There is a serious error in the subtitles at 0:17, when the interviewer asks her why is she a communist it says "economist", please correct that🙏 otherwise great content, amazing message, incredible charisma of that beutiful human being. Love❤

[@ricksmith3634]

“There’s a certain woman here named Angela Davis. I don’t know if you are familiar with her in this country, but in our country, literally, for an entire year, we heard of nothing at all except Angela Davis. There was only Angela Davis in the whole world and she was suffering. We had our ears stuffed with Angela Davis. Little children in school were told to sign petitions in defense of Angela Davis. Little boys and girls, eight and nine years old, were asked to do this. She was set free, as you know. Although she didn’t have too difficult a time in this country’s jails, she came to recuperate in Soviet resorts. Some Soviet dissidents-but more important, a group of Czech dissidents-addressed an appeal to her: `Comrade Davis, you were in prison. You know how unpleasant it is to sit in prison, especially when you consider yourself innocent. You have such great authority now. Could you help our Czech prisoners? Could you stand up for those people in Czechoslovakia who are being persecuted by the state?’ Angela Davis answered: `They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison.’ That is the face of Communism. That is the heart of Communism for you.”

[@mohammedsaleem4918]

And people only seem to be saying in the comments is how beautiful she is how and we'll spoken she is...I'm like hellooo?!?!?! Do you not see what she stands for?!?!?!?

[@ricksmith3634]

@@mohammedsaleem4918 I put this comment on the most viewed Angela Davies videos to make people aware. Most people don't realize how extreme these people are.... I've not had one notification yet where someone read this and agreed that her viewpoint is correct....They always say she didn't say this etc....errrrr google?....which means even her supporters don't actually agree with her when they really understand what she really thinks. As soon as the authoritarian left are exposed it always crumbles

[@mohammedsaleem4918]

@@ricksmith3634 let's pray it crumbles because there's a new radical left in the limelight now and it's called the World Economic Forum and people really do need to look into it and start taking it seriously

[@jamberry8026]

Capitalist sympathizers!

[@jamberry8026]

@@mohammedsaleem4918 WEF is a socialist organization that is waking up to the non-sustainability of capitalism.

[@surgeland9084]

It's interesting because as an anarchist who supports the Black Panthers this almost sums up my opinion of their marxist-leninist tendencies. I know what the ideology is of course, but I don't much care that I disagree with small pieces of their thought because what they do with that thought is impossible for me not to support.

[@aspiringcoconut6561]

It’s insane how well spoken she is. Much respect.

[@jasonwrner]

Wtf kinda comment is this? Why is it insane because you expect a black women with an Afro to speak like a mentally deficient window licker? Or because she said she’s a communist?

[@KennedySquare100]

The dude interviewing her is a Black Panther. Mr. Hilliard I believe. He was in charge of the newspapers they sold. Minister of Propaganda.

[@unbiasedtv6525]

Afro 😍. God, how I wish black women would all wear their natural hair.

[@Vampirelov3r2000]

We do 😐

[@MP-sd4in]

@@Vampirelov3r2000 I’ve seen a fair few of Black women who do wear their real natural hair, but don’t lie and say that Black women now don’t use, take care, or love their natural hair in current times; even in Africa this is becoming a huge problem for Black women, so this is definitely a global issue that needs to be squashed, and I do not blame Black women for giving into using straight haired wigs, because I do see the stigma of curlier hair on Black women being perpetuated time and time again. This has to be a global effort to uplift and praise Black women who use their natural hair instead of using fake inorganic and very unnatural wigs.

[@bo2.4u6]

This is what it is to be young gifted and black even in 2023.

[@saltykiwi8860]

✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@heavenundermyskin]

Amazing woman

[@nathanhicks2000]

What a beautiful person inside and out and that natural is just so aesthetic!

[@blackjackk4223]

And beautiful too

[@bruhidk3069]

Omg she’s so aesthetic!! Even though she is praising an ideology that has killed 100 million people it doesnt matter cuz she is quirky 💅❤️

[@stupidmethteeth1222]

@@bruhidk3069 not 100 million it was exaggerated by the west with rumors and lies its more around 60 million .. still a lot though but it was run by genocidal dictators like Stalin

[@bruhidk3069]

@@stupidmethteeth1222 it was 100 million lmao

[@JerichoMile4]

Angela Davis great afro❗👍 Oscar Gamble (1949-2018) age 68 played major League baseball ⚾ from 1969-1985 and also sported an awesome afro 🤨

[@PenzancePete]

"Why I am a communist". Because she can afford to be a communist. If she came from a poor background she wouldn't be.

[@442277100]

Bro, do you even know what communism is?

[@PenzancePete]

Yes I do.

[@442277100]

@@PenzancePete Your original comment says otherwise, but ok. What is communism, according to you?

[@PenzancePete]

@@442277100 www.aljazeera.com/focus/2009/10/200910793416112389.html This is communism. Fencing and locking your citizens in to stop them leaving and shooting them if they try. Grow up boy and study history instead of wading in that north African river.

[@442277100]

@@PenzancePete Lmao, that isn't true at all. A fascist state with no democracy is _inherently_ not a communist state. They might call themselves communist to make them sound more friendly in the same way that North Korea claims to be the Democratic People's Republic of Korea while not actually being democratic, but that doesn't make them communist. A communist society is in its essence a classless, stateless society in which all of the wealth and means of production are redistributed according to the people's need. Socialism is an umbrella term for many different ideologies that want to turn society into a communist one, but the means in doing this vary wildly. There is for example Marxism-Leninism which advocates for the use of a vanguard party that is controlled by the workers of the state, while Anarcho-communism wants to achieve communism through the abolition of the state, wage labour and private property. East Germany had a dictatorship that was not classless and there was no redistribution either which makes them not communist. It 'Democracy is indispensable to socialism' after all.

[@EmeraldPixelGamingEPG]

If you think Communism could work, Fully Justify and explain why.

[@techswagbro6249]

because it has already worked in a primitive sense with human's first societies.

[@reallysakuiase16]

It has already worked just not superficially. For thousands of years humans used to cooperate and our leaders would make sure everyone was well fed and healthy. But then capitalism was invented

[@angelgfromcorkerii8797]

if you think it wouldn’t then explain why capitalists have fought so strongly against it?

[@MulletKid]

oh man what a smooth brain response. @@techswagbro6249

[@MulletKid]

prior to capetalism we had feudalism, slave societies, empires etc. what are you even talking about. @@reallysakuiase16

[@guybartlett9587]

I don't have to agree with her completely, to admire immensely. She had balls!

[@winstonsmith9533]

There must be something good about it otherwise the Man wouldn't be coming down so hard on it...careful what you wish for folks.

[@NatTurner523]

Equality is what my people want.

[@davidval7188]

Labels are so problematic. You one thing and it could be taken so many different ways

[@GHam-f9o]

That’s how all of language works, my friend

[@RoyDemeosBrother]

There's someone selling Signed Angela Davis broadside posters on eBay from 1972

[@misssincere5762]

Somebody has to explain to me about Communism. Especially, if they are from Cuba, Venezuela, and China.

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

Pygmalion automation can push for some socialism indeed. I have a reason to see this in positive matter

[@maofas]

@@pygmalion8952 China isn't capitalist and the main issue the USSR had was being undermined by revisionists and liberals from within, not with the system they had set into motion during the Lenin and Stalin eras. China allows sphere of capitalist production in specific areas for consumer goods. Healthcare, weapons/defense, banking, education, energy, the entire tech sector is 100% nationalized. There is a contingent of Western leftists that want to denigrate China because it doesn't superficially match up to the socialist fantasyland in their heads, meanwhile China has almost completely eliminated poverty in a huge country in record time. Call it whatever you want, but it isn't capitalist and even if it isn't the society you personally want to live in, it is 100% functional.

[@maofas]

@@pygmalion8952 When the state is a worker's state, the people do control the means of production which is why China's system produces results for its people, rather than funneling all the gains to the top. You are drawing a line between the people and the state that is un-Marxist and shouldn't exist in a socialist society. There is a reason why right wing ideologues always want everything decentralized and left to be run itself without government oversight: it sounds nice but is really a trap for letting concentrations of wealth dominate people. China's working conditions have improved a lot by the way.

[@maofas]

@@pygmalion8952 Yes, one of us has read Marx, whose original contribution per Marx was the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the other is just spouting nonsense.

[@kawo666]

@@maofas Are you saying there's no concentration of wealth at the top in China? So how come they have more billionaires than USA?

[@Christie-ut2eg]

I hate that my parents actually named me after this lady. Something is not right about her.

[@adamgates1142]

It's a nice name either way and you made me lol

[@danimalman3]

Color, communism and common sense - Manning Johnson.

[@Daiyaan_1990]

The prophet of his day. Leonard Patterson and George Schuyler as well

[@beclear2473]

Cuba, Venezuela and everything behind the wall of the former Eastern Europe...well...

[@neilsims6819]

Marx predicted those regimes. They are what he called "crude communism," where people try to move to a communist regime without first passing through capitalism and ridding themselves of thinking in terms of property.

[@waitingformyman9317]

Cuba's doing pretty well for itself given the conditions and illegal sanctions.

[@pmadood6970]

She went to college in Germany (Edit: She went to college in Germany TWO times)..... she's privileged as hell. Black people got played.

[@geoffbeyer1873]

Wants to see people free, and she chooses communism to go about it......That's awfully stupid!

[@SuperArmandoh]

I’m sure Angela, who has dedicated her entire life to the liberation of black people, knows what her people need to be free. As she says, racism will never cease to exists as long as capitalism exists.

[@realcastironstrength]

She didn't answer the question

[@maximumvoid5326]

"Why am I a communist? Because I want a more equal society." Its not in depth but it's there

[@timberrr1126]

Communists use idealistic “useful idiots” and “revolutionaries” to destabilize a nation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJqXnqV3dqqlrJI Then later they are executed.

[@clairofan01]

Tim Borch Yuri is a charlatan that worked w/ the John Birch Society. cringe

[@GodmadeTrends]

@@clairofan01 it’s about the message not the messenger. Even if Yuri is a charlatan as you claim, what he says about leftie communists is very true. Most of the lefties in the west are brainwashed. When you hear of people that have actually lived and escaped communism, that exposes everything you need to know about that oppressive and evil ideology

[@kellyperez1778]

It was hard for me to nail down her definition of it. Did she mean in her mind, Communism was a simply revolution against the oppressed, not so much an economic hierarchy of goods and leadership?

[@davidk5954]

Y'all need some Yuri Bezmenov.

[@clairofan01]

the fraud who worked with the john birch society lmao

[@clairofan01]

@Derek Lowe if u want to delude urself into believing that and admit ur clueless in a yt comment section then go ahead

[@thomasketterle9300]

I haven’t seen the full interview so I’m just wondering if she explained what communism is because i understand this clip was about why she is one. I’m wondering if TV would let someone openly talk about fundamental ideologies of communism on live TV back then?

[@timberrr1126]

Thomas Ketterle Russian brainwashing and demoralization methods kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmnKl4SooNasgMk

[@GuyUWishUWere]

No one would support communism if they knew what it actually is. Manning johnson tried to warn this woman and the rest of his people about communism. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKazXoqMnMueg68

[@gggfightklub8449]

A communist society as defined by communists is a moneyless classless stateless society in which the workers own the means of production (the machinery used to produce items). Communists ask for a strong well fair state, the idea is to reach equity for individuals. The idea is that since people do not have to work in harsh conditions to survive, and since everyone has a good education, people will be able to peruse what ever jobs they want simply for the joy of doing it. People do not live under a constant threat of a boom bust cycle resorting in an economic Crises since items aren’t produced for profit, but rather the betterment of humanity.

[@DmoneyS44]

@DoughnationCreative as opposed to being dependent on capital through your boss and wages? The establishment already exists, it takes from you and gives you less in return. An establishment that at least gives you a fair share in return sounds like an improvement

[@sam0xin]

And there is her dream country today ? In dustbin of history.

[@TheOneAndOnlyHope]

Socialists and communists contradict themselves way too much, it’s actually funny.

[@sakuiasesamurai1671]

Can you explain how?

[@marselluswallace6]

Some people are more successful than others. Some people make better choices through life. People get lucky. Life is random. Some lions get more kills than others. Some cubs dont make it lion hood. This is NATURE. This is NOT because of systematic oppression. Creatures DO NOT ALL HAVE THE SAME OUTCOMES.

[@BossSkyfall]

based

[@dmathmothtutinean8950]

I saw her speak! I saw white men shudder in fear when she spoke! I SAW it!

[@reallysakuiase16]

✊🏿

[@SeanSpencerr]

Americans live and die by labels...it’s sad, honestly

[@JadeEyes1]

This is OUR interview.

[@unbiasedtv6525]

I know it's unrelated, but she is so attractive !!!!!

[@liamashbrook3093]

Haha just a normal comment and not for the algorithm

[@LiLaoda9]

I love her, whatever ist she is!

[@dubbatrubba1759]

She’s a Mayflower descendant on one side of her family, and slave owners on the other side of her family. How do you like them apples, PILGRIM? 🚢 🚢 😂😂

[@shibawarrior17]

Cultural vultures are nothing to be praised for. Marxists are terrible

[@hyacinth1320]

on cbs...

[@minatonamikaze2496]

this isntue single gayest thing I ever seen in my entire life

[@giovanniford123]

Your spelling is bro lol

[@oliverallen5324]

Ignorance is very powerful.

[@winter01013]

So beautiful

[@b6studios131]

#CPUSA ☭

[@timothyroams2768]

I thought it was so rich and telling when Angela Davis found out that one of her ancestors came to America on the Mayflower. She thought that her history started with slavery here but it did not, it started with an ancestor that was part of the founding wave of immigrants to the Americas. I hope she is able to learn from that fact in her later years of life.

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

Slave masters raped slaves and produced children. Please, let your 2 brain cells work together as a team. They're not doing well by themselves

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

Nothing inspires Communism more than Anti-Communism, especially when Anti-Communism was also at the time (though honestly still is) very Racist and Religiously Biased.

[@PiersPlowman]

In the end Gulag=the Left eating its own

[@halguy5745]

@@PiersPlowman you're spouting slogans unrelated to the comments you're responding to. the right are the real NPCs

[@PiersPlowman]

hal guy in Communist Infected Russia- GULAG did not occur? Gulag is not a fact of history? and how many millions died under Gulag? at what point did Justice for the Worker become Tryanny?

[@coemgenvsrex1351]

Communism is a white mans ideology

[@halguy5745]

@@PiersPlowman even if thats true its not related to what the OP was talking about. you see any post about communism and you're like "gulags!! famine!! neomarxim!!!". make some actual points that are related to the comment instead of spewing same repetitive quotes that has been disproven time and time again

[@cinnamon_art4016]

I’m writing a paper in school on why communism is better than capitalism, but I need sources from economists. Can anyone send one my way please

[@bookpaper105]

ok let me give you some examples. look up east and west germany its the perfect example literally one side of the country was basically capitalist and the other side was communist...

[@cinnamon_art4016]

@@bookpaper105 It’s a joke

[@frennauta]

Read the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, and The State and Revolution by Lenin; those are pretty good to start and understand the basics, you can easily get the PDFs.

[@cinnamon_art4016]

@@frennauta Thanks but no thanks, communism is a disease

[@andrik78]

Wow this is so called intellectual conversation?

[@mvalle6072]

Genuinely curious as to what you find nonintellectual about it ?

[@elainesabatino7467]

@@mvalle6072 Communism = Antiwhiteism

[@mohammedsaleem4918]

Truth is..she loves being ruled over by a Master. Simple

[@GaguticalPeace]

The true meaning of anything lies in the root origin and meaning of the letters and words.

[@frankegordon326]

Does it really? Words change in meaning over time despite their origins but that doesn't mean that it isnt the truth

[@timberrr1126]

Postmoderns disagree.

[@youngstunnah3750]

Obviously she has no idea what a communist really is !the speaker asked her why are you a communist and she could not give a vivid answer on what or why she was a communist or what communism stands for as a whole !!

[@MC-ns8gb]

In a time where the fbi was looking for anything to use against black leaders you're surprised she didn't give a clear answer?

[@youngstunnah3750]

@@MC-ns8gb I can understand speaking in parables or even disguising what she wanted to say , but her answer was shaky her voice was cracking she kept saying uhhh . Those are all indicator of her not being sure of her answer & not knowing what she should really reply without sounding like she has no idea what she's talking about . I heard nothing of what communism meant to her or her people !

[@Cantworship2gods]

She reminds me of the woman from sly & family stone

[@EdmacZ]

Communism always has big dreams and big ideas, and it appeals to the greatest flaws/advantages of man. It calls for order, which attracts people. It talks about fairness, which appeals to humanity’s compassion for others. It appeals to man’s innate desire to be a hero. Communism always sounds great in theory. But it never works and collapses because it’s greatest weakness is man itself. Humanity is different and flawed. Humans are greedy. Humans are fearful. Humans are jealous. Humans are capable of great good and evil. One human will always blow it for everyone. There is always one that will always desire more and take more. So to respond to this flaw, the Communist system reverts to an brutal enforcer system that kills people who step out of line, or serve no further purpose and become a burden on the system. Angela, like all Communists can freely state their beliefs because they already live in a free country that allows them to express their ideas. In a communist country, she’s just another dispensable cog in the system that will kill her the instant she stops being useful. The revolutionaries are always the first to go in Communist world.

[@marvingriffin3]

Wow, great fun fact 👏🏾

[@puertoriconnect4611]

I love Angela Davis. I love the Panthers, but I can’t be down with communism. We need something new. Regulating capitalism and fusing it with socialism is a lot more appealing than communism. Sure, capitalism has led to oppression but communism doesn’t have a great track record either.

[@LaudianoHeathen]

Research anarchism then.. and no it is not a society without rules and bandits/warlords running around

[@puertoriconnect4611]

Proconsul Scipio We’ve already done it 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@von111]

She says she wants her people to be feee, then advocates for communism 🤣

[@sakuiasesamurai1671]

Yep. She advocates for black liberation while also supporting global liberation. Isn’t that crazy? She wants total equality for everybody

[@andresrodriguez3708]

@@sakuiasesamurai1671 Manning Johnson "Color, Communism and Common Sense 1958.

[@mossypotato9899]

Because capitalism oppressed Africa and put Black Americans in chains

[@jcdenton7891]

She is so beautiful, and a communist as well!

[@TiaSnoozy805]

💙💙

[@loon0493]

The problem with communism is technology will eventually take over the worker because demand will always increase. However, capitalism seeks to marginalize the worker by placing as little value on his labor as possible in order to maximize profits. Communism leads to stagnation, but Capitalism leads to abandonment and economic disillusionment. Neither system answers the fundamental question of human dignity.

[@atomisedman6235]

Loon

[@halguy5745]

what do you mean by technology will take over the worker?

[@loon0493]

Innovation is ongoing. Change is inevitable because of demands of the markets. You start with a tiller then you move to a plow then a tractor in each case the worker must adapt or be replace. Communism removes that incentive so markets are loss to other countries that keep innovating

[@halguy5745]

@@loon0493 @@loon0493 capitalism doesn't produce new things for the sake of innovation, only for the sake of material gain. you get tons of shitty useless inventions that are solely made for profit, and it something useful is produced the prices are rocketed for profit, look at medication, even in case of corona virus now in communism people aren't scared of mechanization of the work place. if they're replaced by machines they won't be fired like in capitalism. they will be given shorter working hours and will have more free time to peruse their passions etc

[@loon0493]

@@halguy5745 sir I am not a defending capitalism either

[@illphil6627]

Who is doing the interview?

[@halguy5745]

Cornel West I think

[@DO-fo5pm]

Better DEAD than red

[@amihart9269]

That can be arranged.

[@DO-fo5pm]

@@amihart9269 Well….?

[@amihart9269]

@@DO-fo5pm Well the original phrase "better red than dead" was coined as an anti-nuclear war slogan, so I presume you are advocating to starting a nuclear holocaust? I mean, no one outside of your edgy circle of 12 year old friends will take you seriously, but if you really want to die I'm sure you can find much easier ways than waiting for a nuclear war.

[@joshuamartinpryce1237]

People are known by how they present themselves. God presents Himself as good, because He hates evil, and injustice. We need to love Jesus Christ, He is the essence of good in this world, and everything good comes from God. Everything bad comes from Satan, but people are drawn to naturalistic mindsets which cause spiritual decay.

[@maurice2014]

Yall still believe in communism? 🤣💀

[@OFFONE]

Imagine believing a system that killed over 15-50 million people in China from starvation just 60 years ago.

[@96superuser]

@@OFFONE Imagine believing in a system that starves about 10 million every year even though enough food is available.

[@krishgohel653]

Dick riding rich people is crazy

[@baileyreport.]

Be proud and thankful you are a communist. What is wrong with loving equality, justice, compassion, mercy, blessings, and empathy for others? Have these feelings become anti-American? Well, I confess I am not a capitalist who loves money. How does that grab you?

[@that1guy246]

Everyone here should listen to Thomas Sowell

[@tylermahoney7669]

Absolutely no one anywhere should ever listen to Thomas Stowell.

[@that1guy246]

@@tylermahoney7669 why? Because he's a marxist turned capitalist? Everyone should challenge their own views, which is why you find me here.

[@alexbaynard1786]

@@that1guy246 no cuz racist people read him to confirmation bias their racism. Just look at Jesse Lee Pederson and Candance Owen's. Both total clowns

[@that1guy246]

@@alexbaynard1786 actually I found out about Thomas Sowell from a killer mike interview where he recommended for people to look into thomas Sowells readings. Why do you default to racism being the reason? Sounds like projection to me.

[@alexbaynard1786]

@@that1guy246 Look I like killer Mike and there's probably more to the interview because killer Mike is a leftist. Thomas Sowell's books are generally referenced by racists and grifters because he's a black person that can be used to agree with racist ideology. If anyone wants someone real to listen to I'd heavily recommend Cornel West.

[@jeffjones3040]

🥰

[@yixie6830]

greetings from China🇨🇳

[@mydad4332]

安吉拉·戴維斯，美國黑人共產主義者

[@Zhicano]

Hell comrade!

[@johnlawful2272]

Still forcing those factory workers to work after attempting suicide

[@yixie6830]

@k b i don't think it's a "communist paradise" haha but you are welcome to visit

[@georgie3593]

Lollll the irony of her point.

[@dankghoul1438]

Because she doesn't know anything about economics.

[@dankghoul1438]

@Frederick Röders Marx was a terrible economist.

[@heat3495]

@@dankghoul1438 citation needed

[@dankghoul1438]

@@heat3495 For?

[@heat3495]

@@dankghoul1438 your claim

[@dankghoul1438]

@@heat3495 Which one?

[@almasibillings3359]

Sister Davis fineeee

[@note_finger]

too bad communism failed and there are examples to show

[@Hdusiekwbshsjs]

nah

[@note_finger]

Pol Pot yah

[@Hdusiekwbshsjs]

Isaiah show proof

[@note_finger]

Pol Pot Venezuela, Soviet Union, CHAZ

[@Hdusiekwbshsjs]

Isaiah Elaborate

[@jacksnow54104]

Angela Davis is a FUCKING QUEEN

[@SnoozeTheRecluse]

A "revolutionary society" sounds like a paradox