Via World Tribune
Marxist activist Angela Davis:
Riots are ‘rehearsals for revolution’The mayhem unleashed on America’s cities by Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other anarchists is laying the groundwork for a larger 'revolution' to bring about 'radical change' to the capitalist system, Marxist activist Angela Davis said.
“Sometimes we assume the most important work is the dramatic work — the street demonstrations. I like the term that [Marxist cultural critic] John Berger used: Demonstrations are ‘rehearsals for revolution,’ ” Davis told filmmaker Ava DuVernay in a Vanity Fair interview.
he Black Lives Matter riots and “defund the police” movement represent the culmination of decades of radical left-wing activism, Davis said.
Davis is a tenured professor (retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
“The protests offered people an opportunity to join in this collective demand to bring about deep change, radical change,” Davis said. “Defund the police, abolish policing as we know it now. These are the same arguments that we’ve been making for such a long time about the prison system and the whole criminal justice system. It was as if all of these decades of work by so many people, who received no credit at all, came to fruition.” Read More
Former Communist Angela Davis backs Biden because he can be ‘effectively pressured’
Angela Davis, a well-known Marxist and former Communist Party member who won the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize, said she is supporting Democrat Joe Biden because it will be easy for leftists to manipulate him.
In a social media post on Monday, Davis said it is critical to get behind Biden, who she said is the candidate “who can be most effectively pressured” by the Left.
“I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction,” said Davis. “It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.”
The post was was excerpted from a Russia Today interview last month. Russia Today, or RT, is funded by the Russian government.
Biden’s past role in championing legislation which led to the mass incarceration of black men is problematic, Davis said, but but added that “Biden is far more likely to take mass demands seriously” than President Donald Trump.
“Far more likely than the current occupant of the White House, so that this coming November, the election will ask us not so much to vote for the best candidate, but to vote for or against ourselves,” Davis said. “And to vote for ourselves I think means that we will have to campaign for and vote for Biden.”
Davis, a fervent supporter of the infamous leftist cult leader and mass murderer Jim Jones, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame last year. Read More