Angela Davis - How Capitalism Affects The Working Class

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?

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

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

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.

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

@@josephjasen1293 why do you say that

@@user-hs4dm9xq5e she is brilliant. And yes.

Angela Davis is one of those folks used to be a revolutionary way way back in the day but then devolved into a petit borgeois intllectual. For fvck's sake, she said Obama was part of (Cedric Robinson's) Black Radical Traditon. Black folks, especially those claiming to be Marxists, would do well to remember Zora Neale Hurston: "All your skinfolk ain't your kinfolk."

joseph jasen why not enlighten us

Jack of all trades, master of none.

@@dinglebat63 and yet here you are.

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

@@dinglebat63 what trade are you a master of?

what school was it?

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

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

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

@@krankinthehog4984 says the person watching it lol

@@__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

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

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

What are they "defending" themselves against?

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

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.

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

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.

@@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

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

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

@@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.

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

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

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.

None of those countries are actually communist

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

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

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

She's a scholar, that's her job. Does she have to be part of any class? She's a human rights activist.

Right. That’s so stupid to say, “oh you fight for the poor? Interesting how you’re NOT” as if empathy isn’t a thing

@thenewmiLONNIEum Does a Doctor have to be a cancer patient treat it or talk about its risk to human health?

These concepts are deliberately obscured in the English-speaking world. "Working class" means you work for a wage. "Capitalists" are people who own property and collect income from other people working. Scholars and physicians are working class. If you are a landlord, an employer or any sort of moneylender, you are not. Which is not to say that capitalists don't work. Many of them do. But their wealth is mostly taken from others, not from their own labor. You can't get a billion dollars working for a wage.

This may be one of the dumbest takes I’ve ever heard in my life. Conservatives are the dumbest humans walking the planet. Could you imagine walking around being so dumb.

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...

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

Yo you forgot that caps lock XD

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

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

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

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.