You can’t operate a capitalistic system unless you are vulturistic
You show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
This Malcolm X????
He was, in fact, an unlikely advocate for capitalism. 0% chance is still a likelihood, technically
I saw a :reddit-logo: comment where someone said that Fred Hampton would have made a great senator and a congressman. The comment ended with "they kill them not for their ideas, but their ability ti be supported into seats of power"
Here's the article, and boy, they... they definitely put words on a page.
https://www.theadvocates.org/2019/02/remembering-malcolm-x-an-unlikely-advocate-for-capitalism/
In the church of progressivism, where the state is God, advocacy for statist causes is enough for you to receive sainthood. Even conservative go overboard in their praise of MLK, especially when MLK’s socialist views are considered.
Yes, I regularly sit down and pray to the federal government.
This heart-breaking moment made him pause and reflect on how the Michigan welfare state destroyed his family. In his autobiography, Malcolm X recognized the state’s destructive impact on his family: “I truly believe that if ever a state social agency destroyed a family, it destroyed ours. We wanted and tried to stay together. Our home didn’t have to be destroyed. But the Welfare, the courts, and their doctor, gave us the one-two-three punch.”
I... I don't think you're interpreting that the way he intended you to interpret that.
These unfortunate series of events were ominous signs of what would be in store for millions of African Americans under the Great Society welfare programs of the 1960s. And they very likely made X skeptical of government as a solution to people’s problems.
Yes, why would African Americans distrust the government during that time...? Aha! Of course! It's because they hate the concept of welfare and want more free market interventions and less regulations on capitalists!
During a speech in Detroit, Michigan in 1964, Malcolm X re-asserted the necessity for blacks to set-up their own businesses and avoid integrationist activism: “So our people not only have to be re-educated to the importance of supporting black business, but the black man himself has to be made aware of the importance of going into business. And once you and I go into business, we own and operate at least the businesses in our community. What we will be doing is developing a situation wherein we will actually be able to create employment for the people in the community. And once you can create some employment in the community where you live it will eliminate the necessity of you and me having to act ignorantly and disgracefully, boycotting and picketing some place else trying to beg him for a job.” Ironically, any suggestions of black self-improvement through entrepreneurship and de-emphasizing political activism are met with accusations of being a “race traitor” or “Uncle Tom” these days.
"Political activism" means when you do bad things, and as capitalism isn't political, trying to elevate the material conditions of African Americans via black businesses can't be political activism.
These ideas still have relevance to this day. In a time where the black community is socially disintegrating — as evidenced with the pervasiveness of black on black on violence and the collapse of the black family unit — a message emphasizing entrepreneurship and less reliance on government initiatives is critical. It would behoove minorities to carefully review the unheralded facets of his economic views. In there, they can find the keys to breaking free from the cesspool of government dependency.
You absolute fucking ghoul. You worthless waste of fucking oxygen. God, I want to play Minecraft with this person so badly.
Yes, exactly. I can't tell if the misunderstanding of these libertarians is intentional to stir the pot and they know they're just bullshitting, or if they genuinely believe that Malcolm X was a communist-turned-capitalist as soon as he saw the failings of the US government, systemic racism, and some of the understandable flaws of the civil rights movement.
I wanted to see their line of reasoning to see how :galaxy-brain: it was and would have just ignored it if it was boring and lib, but this shit is straight up ghoulish. Like, real fucking demonic energy here.
So is MLK day now just the day of the year where they say 10x more shit to make civil rights leaders spin in their graves?
