M.I.A. Quotes
It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
M.I.A. Interview. The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 2010.
The first Russian Revolutionary Newspaper for Workers. Volodarsky shot to the top of the early revolutionary leadership. Most of the early Russian leaders were intellectuals and theoreticians. Valodarsky had much organizing experience and could communicate well with workers having been active in the Ladies Garment Workers Union and the American Socialist Party. His practical American approach was just what was needed and he became a key member of the leadership. He was so instrumental in the Bolshevik leadership that he was targeted for assassination along with Lenin and Uritsky. Lenin was only wounded. The others died. Goldstein was only 27 years old. Russia named bridges, schools and warships after him.
This is not only attributed by reliable sources but apparently Roosevelt had said this on several occasions. The word “radical” has had different shades of meaning at different periods of American History. The origin of the word from the Latin means someone who wishes to change things very rapidly and not gradually. In the time of the Civil War, the majority of the Republicans proudly referred to themselves as “radicals” or “radical Republicans” because they wanted to abolish slavery immediately. In the late 19th century the word “radical” referred to anarchists. From the Russian Revolution onward “radicals” were communists who presumably wanted to change governments throughout the work through revolution—very rapid change. However, in the early 20th century, radicals were people who wanted to reform and regulate businesses and monopolies rapidly and it is this sense he was a radical. But by style, he was a radical in most things in that he wanted to change things and change them rapidly.
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam MBE, known by her stage name M.I.A. (/ɛm aɪ eɪ/), is an English rapper, singer, record producer, and activist. M.I.A.'s songs are marked with evocative political and philosophical commentary. Her music combines elements of alternative, dance, electronic, hip hop, and world music with eclectic instruments and samples.
