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This is an extract from Angela Davis's The Meaning of Freedom, a collection of speeches and papers dealing with the author's life-long struggle against oppression, inequality and prejudice.

About money there is nothing new. Nor about social inequity. When I wrote The Privileges, I was careful to leave out as many time-specific details as possible, because I felt that to tie its characters, and the lives they led, to the circumstances of a particular moment in history was to excuse them, in a way, and thus to miss the point of their existence...

Lorsqu'elle émergea sur la scène politique américaine en 1960, la Nouvelle Gauche, et plus particulièrement le Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), son porte-drapeau, décida de se démarquer de la « vieille » gauche marxiste idéologique et doctrinaire. Entre 1960 et 1965, elle adopta une stratégie résolument réformatrice reposant sur un idéalisme convaincu, une spontanéité à toute épreuve et une prédilection pour les actions directes dont les résultats étaient tangibles, repérables et par conséquent particulièrement valorisants et motivants pour les participants et les bénéficiaires. De la sorte, n'avait-elle pas adopté des principes d'anarchisme existentiel ?