Angela Davis

she's great

THIS TRACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAHDpnb03_0

I’m very optimistic... and of course I often borrow Antonio Gramsci’s notion of pessimism of the intellect but optimism of the will. Yes we always have to believe that, ultimately we will be able to change the world and I think that today as we try to generate powerful resistance movements against Islamophobia, to protect undocumented immigrants,to protect the rights of trans people, that we are drawing upon forces and drawing upon energies that have been created over decades. so now we are, in a sense, reaping the fruits of the work that people, activists, like ourselves... just as we are creating the terrain for something that may happen fifty years from now... And oftentimes when i say this people become depressed because they say “well, maybe i won’t be around in fifty years…?" but so what? you know, what difference does that make? Capitalism forces us and the neoliberal ideologies you were talking about compel us to measure the world in a very small way. We cannot measure the work that we are doing by our own selves.

that’s great

it is!

the idea seems so obvious but it's shocking and exciting to hear it so clearly expressed.

also, the track is fucking gorgeous.