Herbert Marcuse And Angela Davis At Berkeley

This is not a victim of the celebration on such controversy I believe that the fight is just. Beginning to start the fight against all of those. Who wants who want to make you our university and training school for the pill perpetuation of a society see sick you would to your British. And U.S. force parity of which. Is based on zero pression and slaves many of us are people it's with in the National Front to us and with out. The fight against the use power us must go on because it is a fight for you Zain. Want to block your mind much. They want to pour text you again. Controversial

idea. Which according to zir judgment. And danger and destroy American society in all modesty I should just say there's a slight confusion here and feel slighted or vegan language because what these point move will still ID us many indeed and games shall all destroy is soon off superpower said we all visors civil society whatnot Zissou scientists said. Now it's called testing scientific in favor of the law and against the religion. I submit that Tunisians have long since recognized the

mistakes they made. They are all gone and more effective ways of repressing Z University namely via the budget. In very favorable memories and via police censorship and control of appointments motions and so on before they are made. Soldiers say they don't care to go to the courts have the books and I bet you that is precisely what is going to happen. 0 5 4 I'm sure Love is in the last analysis a fight for it is a fight against a new med counties against a new wave of repression that spreads forms in this country all via Z and grill and it is in this loud context that the

chains of Angela has to be seen it is a fight for you for us. I would like to say who can no longer Paula who get sick in the stomach to save the richest society you will. Live on an economy of death live on an economy of ways to planned obsolescence and pollution which cannot hold any thing. Which cannot tolerate it any longer. And just in tolerance is less in tolerance I hope. KURTZ Of course the so-called generation gap because as Although I have been little older than you are for me it is just as intolerant as it is for you in just two we are in the same

poked you question which I want to raise very gleefully today this can free society this out with a radical change. Share a border a few conditions on which its very security and on which its very prosperity rests and I suggest negative. Ads. And negative answer because as a Marxist I must confess or too young I have great face bad faith in the capitalist system. I know all that sewage system is a very business like inventing international system and that it does not blight waste and destruction on mensis

waste and destruction is considered necessary forcing the reported option of the capitalist system. It seems to me that to best boxes we have in this country today are the only school in our society. It is as if they want to demonstrate by using our acts and not only by using speeches that Marx was right. Right not only in this notion of S.M. between economic and political power. All right all right so in this notion that capital cost X power. Must continually expand in order to be able to exist and to exist often to.

Search a society precisely capitalist society does not spend one or two million dollars one dollar since 19 million and 46 on what is called national security while at the same time its essential security is diminishing rather than increasing. This amount in Seymour's in 25 billion dollars. Spent on arms and weapons that were never deployed. More than half of its scientists will directly or in directly for the Pentagon. The waste and obsolescence in most of the branches of the economy. I don't want. To. Impose. Now you wouldn't do such things on unless they are considered necessary and indeed they consider it necessary that Jeff you show

living space is being. Since you weren't. There it was not supposed to fall in to this day. It's there for the enemy must continue to be built up everywhere in China in Vietnam in bar in Latin America. It must continue to build up so debt to people continue to have faith in this insanity. Now I suggest that since Faith is already being shaked and that it is being shaken is to a good meat exchange you are will the only result of you our efforts. You may not know it. You may still think you are

nothing but a bunch of intellectually it's separated forms of masses. The government knows far better than you know. And yes a follow on realistic evaluation of the pall on you all and may be they placing the full weight of the passion is forming the point to schools and universities and on to black militants in the ghettos. With whom you have joined the fight. The full full Suckley passion is not falling on organized labor it is falling on you and see and know why and see know why they have to do it. It also Brooks if they ask anyone capable of breaking the insanity they just gain the will they produce it is junk and it is only young black

white and brown. Who can break this insanity when it gains of troops comes form the president of the United States. He swears it is all right to dissent as long as he be certain does not become too public. You have told me privately kept using the four walls of your house. All in the ballot box. In other words he doesn't like the workstations on the streets and to continue your demonstrations because he knows perhaps better than you know what that say do good that seem to get not just that SEE do believe that all consciousness of Zoar we have not yet seen who have got jet built what is going on around them

continue and try to end the day in one's place. And as far as EU diversity is going to. Continue to watch what is going on. I ask for the resignation of the legions who have violated the law as it was. It was you are terribly insisting that you obeyed the law. What you seem to have far less respect for the law if the law happens to Borgo against then. Or if you cannot get your resignation of the allegiance and you don't just as well as I believe that you cannot. Eat. Because if there ever was any arbitrary power it is the power of the regions. Then see to it that a police daily

to MCO authority over appointments and promotion race to the faculty and to lose a studious and golden key. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Now I think all these suggestions are centered on the university and orangey camp they are larger tasks especially the forming of the alliances with the large Oprah's school in this country black and brown. Posters of long range education. But I don't mean in my eyes. The university your place again the function of schools and universities. Has shame. It is precisely the change in the productive potency of

advanced capitalism. Which makes it pauses for the lie continually and increasingly on the high court the fight in Cheney agent Pearson led its scientists technicians engineers psychologists and even shows you'll notice. This. Out to the whole thing apparently can no longer function the way it is suppose to be. Found it is in universities in schools that use system trains its new Cadmus who has a need for its report on and this is you. Far from being a bunch of intellectuals you formed one of the most important contingent. It's important for the reported option off the system you have to show. That you can resist that you can refuse to be MADE ME Silverman's off

the system. Again it is up to you. You are fighting for yourselves. You are fighting for all of them. Who no longer want the life they get in this society who finally. Want to be able to lead their own lives and to enjoy their own lives with good conscience. And this hour the feeling of guilt. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you May I'm now home to my boat was a pleasant child. Here. I have not yet told you why I'm Sheila Davis was the ideal victim falls this feeling pressure. There are many ways she is black she is militant. She is a communist she is finally changing and she is pretty. This home invasion is war then she system can be total. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU NOW.

Not my student but my only on the faculty. Off to University of California. Angela Davis thank you. Go over. To. The Berkeley campus. First perhaps the most unique tradition of political activity you have continually assume the political responsibility of responding to acts. Of repression and have been capable of involving. The masses of the students on this campus and demonstrative political actions if only for this reason. I feel very. Proud to be able to speak to you today. During the last few weeks there's been a lot of commotion over the

idea. Of academic freedom and indeed a lot of resolutions have been passed condemning the regions for their overt. Violation of the principle of academic freedom. Now first I interpreted the region's actions as obviously a violation of academic freedom. There's obviously an attempt to subvert this whole notion. But I continue to maintain that there were other levels such as racism such as political repression. However not too long ago Herbert Marcous made a statement at a rally down in San Diego. He said that. He could not continue to expound all of the noble concepts of freedom justice equality and the law in the classroom. While these liberties were being continually infringed upon violated in reality. Now this provoked me to

re-evaluate that whole notion of academic freedom. Now those of us who've been involved in the struggle for a long time I think have come to see academic freedom as some kind of an empty concept which professes used to guarantee their right to work undisturbed. By the real world undisturbed by the real problems of this society. What we have to begin to see is that academic freedom is an empty cans have. Unless we do unless we connected up with social and political freedom. The real basis of academic freedom in this country now the freedom to teach the freedom to learn is totally impotent. If it's not a company by the freedom to act in a way that's consonant with the principles one believes in and the many

instances. Of the violation of academic freedom. Which have occurred. Recently are the result of. And. Are reinforced by the continual violation of real concrete freedom in the society. There's Marvin eggs at Fresno State who's being denied the right to teach because he see the path of black liberation as being the construction of a black nation. There's Dangerfield in Los Angeles who's being denied the right to teach in a. Black high school manual arts because he sympathize with the demands of the students and of the community to make that education relevant to the community relevant to the black liberation struggle the salt Castro has attempted to do the same thing for the Chicano community. He is being denied the right to

teach. Now. There's something else we have to talk about. A lot of professors. Think that they. Have a monopoly over academic freedom. Now I think that students. Are to have the monopoly over academic freedom. Because it ought to be an inherent process. And inherent element in the process of learning itself. Thank you. Now another instance of this violation of academic freedom. Has occurred. At the San Fernando Valley State where 24 black students tried to protest the existence of racism which was obviously interfering in the process of their learning. And they are now facing 2000 felony charges for having. Tried to. Protest this racism. Now we therefore cannot make the

mistake of saying that academic freedom is in itself a useless notion. We have to be the ones who inject. Into it its real content its relationship to political and social freedom. And I think especially at this juncture of history we are in need of academic freedom freedom of speech freedom of opinion. Precisely because we have to begin. To unveil to veil. The predominant oppressive ideas. In this country. This is what we have to use academic freedom for. I think this is happening in the universities and the colleges and the schools people are becoming increasingly aware that the university has to become involved with concerns that are moving the community in more ways than one that is we can allow it to be a mere

reflection of the atrocities and injustices which are being perpetuated in the society today such. AS. The fact that this the University of California has. I don't know how many research grants for developing more efficient ways of murdering in Vietnam. Sociologists attempt to explain away. The existence of social problems within the universities. Psychologists attempt to discover mechanisms of rendering individuals who have. Because of the fact that the society is saturated with oppression. Reacted in. A. Rather. React in a way which is not normal in the society not normal in their standards. The psychologists are developing a mechanism to render them. More normal to render them comfortable

with conditions of oppression. Now. I heard not too long ago even that there is a professor down in one of the one of the U.S. campuses who is maintaining that black people are inherently genetically inferior to white people. See these are the kinds of things that we have to combat. This is not a reflection of academic freedom. These people are exploiting the notion of academic freedom. The real free academic freedom the real free intellectual atmosphere of the universe of the university are to consensus in the ability to link up with. Concrete struggles to link up with the black liberation struggle the Chicano liberation struggle the struggle in Vietnam and to not only criticize what's going on in the society but to pose solutions revolutionary solutions.

We have to have the academic freedom to continually expose the imperialist powers. Of this. Government throughout the Third World. If we aren't. Able to link up with the struggle with these struggles. Then. That's when academic freedom becomes a farce and it means no more. It would mean no more than the freedom to remain unaware. To be ignorant of present. Pressing human problems. It would mean freedom from. Not freedom to freedom from the recognition of the problems in the society. It would mean the ivory tower or for us the Evony tower intellectual. And these people who think academic freedom in these terms as being guaranteed to sever themselves off from society.

They don't realize that they are either conscious or unconscious accomplices and the exploitation and oppression of man. Now. We struggle. For open admissions in the universities in the colleges the universities say that if they open their sacred those. Their sacred doors which of the guardians of academic freedom if they open those doors to the wretched of the earth then their standards are going to fall. They say is one of the chancellors one of the universities said the university with then become an intellectual sandbox. They tell us that. The oppressed have to become mature. Before they can enter the sacred doors of the university so therefore we should go to the high schools and we should tell the high schools to prepare the O

press for the sacred doors of academic freedom. We go to the high schools in the ghettos and by. And tell them. What the people in the universities of told us to tell them. But they say they can't do anything because by the time. The students got into the high schools they've already been tainted in the elementary schools. So they tell us to go to the elementary schools and solve the problem there. We go to the elementary school and the elementary school say that the problem is not here. The problem is in the social environment. You know black people brown people oppress exploited white people have been called hated because of their circumstances with an unwillingness to learn. So we have to change that environment. I agree with the mayor telling us what to do they're telling us that we have to talk about revolution.

The enemy very often shows us the path to liberation I think. But they. Cannot accept the logical conclusion of their ideas what they do instead is they people like Jensen. Who say that because of the genes that black people possess we could never. And effect correct that inability to learn. And then the vicious circle is created. There's no way of breaking out of it. It's just like. The slaves used to say you know the slave owners used to say that God ordained certain people to be slaves and certain people to be masters. Now I think what we have to do is while demanding things like open admissions we have to take their advice too. We

have to go to the streets. We have to talk about a complete and total change in the structures of this society because that's the only way that a concept like academic freedom is going to be made relevant. We have to go to the streets. Now. I think that you know those who control the educational system in this country in this day are really afraid of the fact that education can lead to something like that. Education can. Begin to fulfill its true function. The solution of human problems. Therefore they deny. US academic freedom when we link up with those struggles. They deny US academic freedom and this is the paradox. By means of force and violence. Both physical and men who they deny us our right to academic freedom when we say that academic freedom means nothing

unless it is a reflection of political and social freedom. And of course of course they wouldn't accept this conclusion big. It's to the advantage of the people who possess the economic power in this country that education does not fulfill its true function is to their advantage that students are brought out on stagnant rigid defied ideas. It's to their advantage that the MOND of the future be the force reflection of their interest in interests of the people who have the economic and political power in this country. We have to talk about. Liberating the mind as well as liberating the society. Now why do Reagan and the regents continue to thwart the real process of education. Well you know for one thing. I think we all realize that this sort of stupid

and they really haven't educated themselves so they are not even able to perceive what that process should be. And I think anyone who is so unintelligent to have made the remark that Polly made that there was no racism involved in firing me because they had already planned to replace me with another black person. That kind of person is healthily incapable of. Of determining the kinds of things that ought to be taught in the university stood a they do not deserve to. Determine. What form education the thousands of young people in the state are getting now. Yet in still. The regions and. Are. Themselves the ones who have continued to usurp the power which which

we rightfully have. They determine what we ought to teach what we are to learn. Who are to teach who are to learn and I reject that emotional and illegal usurpation of power. Which rights only. Thank you it's. Rightfully belongs to those who have the knowledge and experience to make such decisions. And although. I don't want to put down the faculty I think that at this juncture in history the students are the ones who really have the knowledge and experience to determine what kind of education. Now you know the regents supposedly represent the people of California this is what is stated in the Constitution. And the mere fact that Reagan appoints them completely refutes that.

And I think you would probably be very interested to know that not one black person not one Chicano not one Indian. And I think only three women. Have ever been appointed to the board. Of Regents and no students of course either. They're talking about themselves as being the lawful representatives of the people of California. Now who do they represent. Who do the regions represent. There is. No Bank of America. It has a very large representation on the board of regents. A lot of banks in California and a lot of corporations are political parties. The prevailing political parties have very very good. Representation on the board of regents. And I maintain that they have a stablished and. Legal. Tyranny over the University of California.

Which is just perhaps one small element of that overall tyranny which has been established over the people of this entire country. It's become necessary to establish that tyranny because. I feel that they are becoming increasingly frame of the people of the students. They are afraid. Of her. They are afraid of Eldridge Cleaver. They are afraid of Marvin X. And most of all they are afraid of the power the students. Are beginning to assert. Throughout the universities. They. Were afraid when they killed and brutalized a human being because you decided that. You had the right to establish a target for the people on land

which rightly belongs to the people. They are friends. Of ours because we and they have every right to be afraid of us because we are continually demonstrating to them that they have every right to be afraid and we have to do this over and over again and they have every right to be afraid. Now. Radicals are emerging. On the campuses throughout throughout the whole university system and are being attacked. This is just a reflection. Of the emergence. Of radical movements dedicated to destroying the capitalist society. All over the. Society and the attacks on these radicals in the universities. These are. Reflections of the killings which occur every day in the ghettos and on the battlefields in Vietnam. And we have to make that. Connection we have to link up these struggles. They launched an attack on me. Because. I'm in the club which is an

all black collective in the communist party devoted. To struggling for black liberation. And I think they realize that if I were allowed to teach at UCLA. That I would get involved in the struggle to combat. Them. To combat idiots who call themselves religions. I think that we have to view the court decision that was made a few days ago. As a victory from one point of view. It's a victory because it exposes to the people the increasingly fashionista tendencies in this country. It exposes Regan and the regions as unscrupulous. Demagogues. We also have to consider the reason for the for the decision. The decision came about only because of mass pressure only because of the fact that. All over the state there were demonstrations there were indications

that. We would. Take over. And I think the judge who made the decision realized this when he said. That. He wanted to be wanted to affect this decision within a few hours because otherwise he knew it was going to be decided in the streets. I had think he was right. And what. We have to. Do at this point is to use that decision because that decision gives us a little more. Flexibility a little more movement in order to escalate the struggle in the society. I think we should take some advice from w the boys who wrote in 1910 something which is very relevant to the struggle today. He said some good friends of the cars we represent. Fear agitation. They say do not agitate. Do not make a noise. Work. They are.

Agitation is destructive. Or at best negative What is one of this positive constructive work. As such honest critics mistake the function of agitation or to die is agitation is a tooth ache a good thing. No is it therefore useless now with the supreme leader useful for it tells the body. Of decay and death. Without it. Without it the body would suffer. Knowingly. It would think all is well. Learned. And we have to take. The Voice's. Advice I think and in agitating we have to realize that in order to make education relevant in order to take in order to make those three Rs

reading writing arithmetic relevant. We gonna have to talk about. Eliminating getting rid of some three R's. And that's Reagan. Rafferty and the regions. Thank you Occupy Wall Street.