Yeah Angela has written some good stuff. Women, Race, and Class and Women, Culture, and Politics were good introductory texts to feminism and feminism from a socialist perspective for me.
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Angela Davis
I just heard Angela speak and I adore her. Very warm, with bigger-than-life presence. I bought her latest: "The Meaning of Freedom"; and am about halfway through. It's a collection of prior talks and covers a lot of topics that she re-visited.
http://truth-out.org/video/item/1407...ential-agendas
Her main focus at the moment seems to be the prison-industrial complex and prison abolition:
http://criticalresistance.org/
Yeah Angela has written some good stuff. Women, Race, and Class and Women, Culture, and Politics were good introductory texts to feminism and feminism from a socialist perspective for me.
she's drunk on Obamalaid
Yeah, Davis is cool. Though the only thing I've read of hers is 'Are Prisons Obsolete?' which I thought was a brilliant book.
Modern democracy is nothing but the freedom to preach whatever is to the advantage of the bourgeoisie - Lenin
A few days ago she wasn't shy about critisizing Obama.
She's become extremely more moderate in recent decades. She's not the staunch communist she used to be, being a Communist Party politician and getting her phd at Humboldt and all.
If we could look decades into the future I wonder how many of these Revlefters'll still be fire-breathers? And "Dr." Davis does take some getting used to....
Doesn't mean your politics have to become worse.If we could look decades into the future I wonder how many of these Revlefters'll still be fire-breathers
Is this resistance or a costume party?
Either way I think black with bandanas is a boring theme.
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Agreed, absolutely. In her case I know she left CPUSA; but I can't fault her for that. And she still spends time on the street getting involved in different things-she was headed somewhere this weekend.
Perhaps another Obama rally? She fully endorsed Obama, and not because of "lesser evilism". Her current politics are shit! How could a former radical such as herself, spew nonsense [FONT=Arial, sans-serif]like: "Barack Obama is a man who identifies with the Black radical tradion" lol wut?
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It's obvious she didn't leave the CPUSA because of their rightward turn towards the Democrats.
And it's not unusual for liberals to criticize Obama, even Michael Moore criticizes Obama regularly but fully endorses him.
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OOPS! And I forgot to say that I had lost track of her from about 1970-to-this week!
Hey, no need to get confrontational. Just because one gets older does not mean they will necessarily sell out (though that is certainly a possibility for many of us).If we could look decades into the future I wonder how many of these Revlefters'll still be fire-breathers
That was my way of agreeing with you.
Anyone who can play second fiddle to Gus Hall without laughing is a person to be skeptical of. Then again many of her speeches and writings are very inspiring. Hmm, she must be human.
Edit: Did she ever have politics of action that equaled her politics of speeches and writtings?
Brospierre-Albanian baseball was played with a frozen ball of shit and tree branch
"History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union."
Henry L. Stimson: U.S. Secretary of War
Take the word “fear” and the phrase “for what, it’s not going to change anything” out of your minds and take control of your future.
[I]Juan Jose Fernandez, Asturias
"I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see"
Angela Davis is a petit-bourgeois liberal who so-called Leftists uphold as some sort of celebrity. She has a commitment to single issue politics (prison abolition and lgbt) and reformism. She's also a founding member of CCDAS which is a "democratic socialist" organization that takes annual trips to Vietnam, if that tells you anything.
She worked closely with the black panthers in the 60-70's.
Her musings on the use of violence have always fascinated me.
have some respect !!
she was Americas most wanted for a long time and had to go underground - she has credentials-
she knows about being a prisoner and is active on that issue -
I had the privilege to meet her in 2009 ..
Women Race and Class is as relevant today as when she wrote it
R.I.P Juan Almeida Bosque
"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely
the oppressive situations which we seek to escape,
but that piece of the oppressor which is
planted deep within each of us." Audre Lorde
She was never a "staunch communist," she was a firm supporter of the CPUSA and praised the social-imperialist USSR, the "consumer socialist" GDR, etc. Then after 1989 she became a member of the "Committees of Correspondence," which was a liberal split from the CPUSA when it wasn't fashionable to uphold Soviet revisionism anymore.
She was "socialist" in the same sense as Bill Ayers and other 60's "radicals." This does not mean she cannot write interesting works, but her "communism" was superficial.
* h0m0revolutionary: "neo-liberalism can deliver healthy children, it can educate them, it can feed them, it can clothe them and leave them fully contented."
* rooster: "Supporting [anti-imperialism] is reactionary. How is any nation supposed to stand up [to] the might of the US anyway?"
* nizan: "Fuck your education is empowerment bullshit, education is alienation, nothing more. You indulge in a dying prestige for a role in a bureaucratic spectacle deserving of nothing beyond contempt."
* Alexios: "To the Board Administration: Ismail [...] needs to be eliminated from this forum."
Yeah my mistake. She was only as staunch a communist as one could have been past the 1920's and especially past the dissolution of the Comintern within the official Communist Parties.
Who's being disrespectful?
