"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred, and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their deaths, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names, to a certain extent, for the ‘consolation’ of the oppressed classes, and with the object of duping the latter, while, at the same time, robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge, and vulgarizing it."
There's just so much power in calling your shot a century ago and still scoring points from it to this day.
Huey Newton fucking knew every single gun law down to his municipality so that the Panthers could police the pigs but go ahead and tell me how black revolutionaries were looking forward to some bourgeoisie electoral bullshit
Famously radical black radicals weren't actually that radical.
Lenin wasn't actually that revolutionary.
Water isn't actually that wet.
Lenin? He was that guy that wanted a tax advantaged health savings account and to shift to a ranked choice ballot or something right
The capitalist will sell us the rope with which we will tie in a knot to symbolize our shared commitment to progress.
What if we symbolized our shared commitment to progress in central park?
The first country to implement the socialist mode of production was Canada in 1867. Few people realize this.
Canada
always had a democratic political system
:thonk: :kkkanada:
Either :brainworms: or actual propaganda shit idk how to even process it
I've actually met three different Americans who didn't know each other who all genuinely thought that Canada was socialist. Like, we're just cold Australia more or less, chill.
When you live in a neoliberal hellscape, a neoliberal hellscape with trains and or moderate welfare looks like heaven.
Socialism is when you feed babies to sadistic catholic priests for "reeducation" and the more babies you feed the more socialister it is.
