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Ella Baker’s socialist views are still largely ignored by most of the American Left, and y’all might not understand how much of our swag comes from her, so we decided to put together a thread of some highlights from Barbara Ransby’s “Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.” 😎 
“As an adult, Baker said that the socialist principle – to each according to need, from each according to ability – was very much in operation in her childhood community. She ‘grew up out of more or less kind of a Socialistic bit of thinking ... ‘[but it was] not called such.’”
“[Ella Baker] combined the Black Baptist missionary values of charity, humility, and service with the economic theories of Marxists and Socialists ... who advocated a redistribution of society’s wealth and a transfer of power from [Capitalists] to the poor and working classes.”
