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Marcela Lagarde: A class compromise

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Being female, black communist and not so simple to Davis during the 70's in them is not anything EEUU.Pero easy to whom they are today.

Angela Davis endured exploitation and repression in a capitalist state that has the harshest persecution against the communist movement.


Similarly, today, black women and women from around the world are exploited by a capitalist system using racism and sexism to segregate the working class, atomize and make negligible.

Angela Davis was jailed and accused of giving weapons to Jonathan Jackson, who had participated in a kidnapping in order to free other activists of the black liberation movement. His trial was one of the most emblematic of that era is remembered as created massive solidarity networks that supported Davis. After several attempts to stop it, the powerful could never stop it. Racism and capitalism



Davis participated in the movement against the Vietnam War, but was a member of the Black Panther, where Davis began to develop his political thinking. The peace movement that was created to end racial segregation in South America, led by Martin Luther King, suffered a major crackdown and part of that movement was necessary to take up arms to defend themselves. The Black Panther took a radical position of self-defense that was closely related to the advancement of his political theory. While other groups talked about the end of racism in the abstract, the Black Panther related the the racist capitalist exploitation.

Davis once said that "the only true path for liberation of black people is working towards the complete abolition of the capitalist class in this country. "This fighter was the prospect of class to the center of any debate over exploitation. What distinguishes Davis from other feminist activists is that she was able to discern with great foresight that racist and sexist exploitation intrinsic to capitalism.
Sexism and Class


In his book "Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis traces the history of black women workers and their relation to white feminist activists bourgeoisie. Davis explains that the suffrage movement, which began in U.S. in the early nineteenth century, was developed entirely from black women workers in the field. For the latter, the political demands and the use of the ballot at the polls did not involved a change in the situation of economic exploitation that had to endure every day. Thus, in his book, explains: "the blinding power of ideology made him incapable [a bourgeois feminists] to understand that working women like black women, were essentially linked to the men who shared the class exploitation and racist oppression and any discrimination between the sexes. " Claiming that the liberation of women passing through the overthrow of the capitalist system carries risks that Davis decided to take a feminist. Not only was she. Lucy Parsons Anita Whitney, Claudia Jones, etc.
are examples of working women who were aware of the strength of the class struggle to achieve real liberation of women from all yokes: the capital, race, sex ... Aware of the need for unity with our partners to achieve a world without classes and differences that segregate and we spray.