Angela Davis, born on this day in 1944, is a Marxist and feminist activist, prison abolitionist, philosopher, and educator. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA until 1991, after which she joined the breakaway "Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism". She is the author of over ten books, covering topics such as class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system.

Born to an African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. Back in the U.S., she joined the Communist Party and, as a Marxist feminist, involved herself in a range of leftist causes, including the second-wave feminist movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War.

In 1970, UCLA's governing Board of Regents soon fired her due to her Communist Party membership; after a court ruled this illegal, the university fired her again, this time for her use of inflammatory language.

Praised by many Marxists and others on the left, Davis has received various awards, including the Lenin Peace Prize. Davis has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Davis was Time magazine's "Woman of the Year" for 1971 in its 2020 "100 Women of the Year" edition.

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  • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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    3 years ago

    damn... /r/antiwork destroyed by one shitty interview. ahh well... someone start an actual labor rights sub now.

    • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      After the mod team went wild anti "tankie" it was a matter of time they showed off how terminally online they were.

      I genuinely worry for the mod though, that is a massively public and colossal fuck up

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      When the host tried to get them into a gotcha over being a dog walker working 20 hours a week, they should have said what's wrong with that? Why do you hate working class people, isn't that who this channel is for? Then call them bourgeois who are wholly divorced from the proletariat, okay maybe don't go that far because those are fancy words for boomers.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      What happened? :meow-popcorn: I haven't really been following that sub since I got banned for "tankies bad"

      • Trouble [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Apparently a mod of it went into a hostile interview with fox and did not make a good showing

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          3 years ago

          Lol that checks out. Do we know if it was one of the definitely-a-fed mods or was it one of the ostensibly-anarchist ones?

    • comi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I don’t get why are they acting like the end of the world, of course they’ll be smeared, they should unite instead of dicking their own :deeper-sadness:

      • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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        3 years ago

        antiwork isn't collectivist, it isn't what it should be, and will only serve to undermine labor rights because of shit like this though.

        the people in there who are about labor rights are right to be pissed. this is a reddit mod who took shit into their own hands and went on fox news and made them all look like a bunch of lazy assholes, after their community collectively agreed that they should not do any kind of press interviews, especially with fox news.

        • comi [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          If they are not collectivist, they are already boned, so again - interview is irrelevant