Interview with Kwame Ture, author and civil rights leader known to most Americans as Stokely Carmichael who discusses socialism as a solution to the capitalist system.
My language arts teacher Mrs. Shhh* ( no name for disclosure) Brought him up to my attention at age 17. I continue to tell young people that brotha kwami can help you in both represent yourself in front of law enforcement, in interviews sociopolitical and in debates. I hear people who listen to him are considered dangerous...no comment...don't try and come get me though period.stay well peoples
He was an amazing speaker, but like most Black Marxist of that era that strove to be public intellectuals, he was a mediocre theorist and poor organizer. I've always wanted to be impressed, but I find him to be a simple and plain mimicker of 60s Black Power thought. After looking at how Russia and China ran their societies off a cliff, they doubled down on socialism because they saw capitalism as an instrument of white oppression. Now Black America is running off a cliff, and its clear that socialism won't save it.
Completely correct. Kwame Ture is one of my favorite revolutionaries. His knowledge about capitalism needs to be passed on because the only way we can move forward without making the same mistakes as we did in the 60s is by learning from them.
From South Florida, the seat of some of the most intense culture wars today over the education of young people, I have always believed that the unique history and consciousness of the Caribbean has a lot to offer North America in our struggle for freedom.
i am saddened that i did not know of this man until this year, to hear such eloquent and thought provoking words. i wish i could have been alive back when they were and to have spoken with them.
Thank you so much for putting all the valuable material you do on here for all of us to watch. It’s truly a gift to listen to Kwame Ture in his own words.
Africa needs her sons and daughters to rebuild her. This gentleman should head the Panafricans do we can all unite and decolonize ourselves. He is amazing
Ture was the best. I always high-browed history for art when I was younger, but I now get my own egotism and hubris regarding it. Were so close to losing history. For example I listened to the podcast blowback on the Korean War. I learned so much more than the cia constructed 8 paragraphs that appeared in my high school text. That accurate history of Africa written by Africans is everything. Its existence alone SHOULD be powerful enough to change the world.👊
Still remember seeing him in1990 or so in CU Boulder. Almost didn't go cause people were saying he was anti_semite and what not. Glad I went, most powerful speech, made me happy to see that there are people like this around
This interview is so prophetic if one looks at the present geopolitical situation. I also love what he states about religion which is a far cry from many of the so-called Pan-Africanist today who are more “Woke” than revolutionary!😂
I really appreciate the fact even when talking about MLK he didnt bash him. Like usually ppl bash others to get their point across but here he explained how he understood mlks side but had a different approach. Ive heard other interviewers try to get him to say something about mlk but everytime he stressed although theyre tactics werent the same he still respected mlk & knew they had the same end goal for black ppl
so much optimism from Ture (questioned by this fragile, almost frighened journalist.) about the future of Africa, the Equality of all races around the world, the rise of socialism and so on. What wonders could happen if we got that lost dream and the optimism back and follow these steps by analyzing what went wrong and by correcting the mistakes....
Notice the flare-ups, the sudden conflicts, the instability in Africa in 2023? There must be rare minerals desperately needed by the West. Destabilise and rule. Identical, time-tested policy implemented In the US as well: make drugs and firearms readily available in black neighbourhoods and the battle is won. Or so they think. Om.
Africa is being ravaged by capitalism lmfao. It is not socialism that causes companies to enslave Congolese citizens to mine cobalt for technology. That is capitalism, labor for the cheapest price, in order to maximize profit. Socialism has no profit motive, so it is purely illogical and backwards for socialism to be the system exploiting Africa and Africans.
I like Stokely up to a point. But I think Socialism is a fantasy. I doubt he could have named one Socialist country, with a large black population, that is doing better, socially, politically or economically than Blacks in Capitalist America. Back then, many of the black leaders flirted with Socialism. But had they lived, they would have seen the futility and the pretense of making Socialism the answer. Today, waves of people are leaving failed Socialist states. They're not in search of other Socialist states. They're trying to get into Capitalist countries. During the 1960s, Stokely and others didn't know what they didn't know. You might say they were high on the rhetoric of the times.
Good lord y'all have a whole alphabet war department talking points ready. There's enough information to prove otherwise but it's too much to think beyond the vacuum you're in. Let's start and end it here, this comment is not for you but for those that will read this thread. Scientific socialism was here before colonialism in every corner of the global south. If socialism is unachievable and impossible then why capitalists and imperialists always funds the demonization of socialism and communism, even create laws to ban it. as well as murder and destroy those that profess their belief in socialism. If truly, socialism is fantasy and a failure then why they put so much effort to not teach it to you.
A very impressive speaker, but the content was mostly really stupid aside from this very prophetic part: 'even how one goes to the bathroom is a political question' 😂
Social democracy is the way forward for mankind. There must be a balance in all things . A just weight is a delight whereas a false weight is an abomination !
Social democracy is still capitalism. It is perhaps the most insidious form-- throwing out crumbs and half-measures while never fundamentally solving the problem. It's that insidious and ulterior self-interest that Ture was most against. Already the "social democracies" of Scandinavia are recouping capitalist losses and showing widening wealth gaps btw.
I don't know where you took the idea that there should be balance in all things. There's justice and injustice, one you promote and the other fight. Social democrats are trying to attribute complexity to simple questions, while taking capitalist money behind the backs of the workers and betraying them every single time a truly revolutionary situation emerges. Capitalism has to go, completely - only when private property is a crime akin to theft capitalism can be efficiently suppressed and suffocated, as it should be as soon as possible and as thoroughly as possible.
@@johnsuplicki Scandinavian countries have used social democracy as a cover, their countries are not really social democratic, but you knew that already didn't you ?
