"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."
Basically why MLK would still be considered a 'controversial' figure if he was still alive, given he was a socialist and also aimed for reparations and what sounds like teaching children critical race theory. If I recall correctly, I believe he was also anti-imperialist.
As Cornel West refers to it, the “Santa Claus-ification” of MLK was designed to sanitize a radical into an innocuous, religious leader acceptable for white mass consumption. During his life he was vilified constantly, and especially in the last year of his life when polled in high negatives, for being a “troublemaker.” Now he’s regarded as an exemplary citizen, safely in the ground for 5 decades. Same with Mandela when he died. Media rushed to exalt him for his courage and commitment, ignoring how he was similarly vilified relentlessly.
This Tubman/CIA is so grotesque beyond anything. The goddamn CIA - who have overthrown over 50 democratically elected governments around the world, for the crime of being socialist or against American imperialism.
Complete and total revisionist propaganda, coopting the great revolutionaries for their slimy scumbag ends.
And look at that statue! Anglicized to the core. Is that Harriet Tubman, the saint to slaves with a scar who delivered many through treacherous nighttime escapes, or someone that could be named Maureen O’Doull?
"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."
Basically why MLK would still be considered a 'controversial' figure if he was still alive, given he was a socialist and also aimed for reparations and what sounds like teaching children critical race theory. If I recall correctly, I believe he was also anti-imperialist.
All of the above.
As Cornel West refers to it, the “Santa Claus-ification” of MLK was designed to sanitize a radical into an innocuous, religious leader acceptable for white mass consumption. During his life he was vilified constantly, and especially in the last year of his life when polled in high negatives, for being a “troublemaker.” Now he’s regarded as an exemplary citizen, safely in the ground for 5 decades. Same with Mandela when he died. Media rushed to exalt him for his courage and commitment, ignoring how he was similarly vilified relentlessly.
This Tubman/CIA is so grotesque beyond anything. The goddamn CIA - who have overthrown over 50 democratically elected governments around the world, for the crime of being socialist or against American imperialism.
Complete and total revisionist propaganda, coopting the great revolutionaries for their slimy scumbag ends.
And look at that statue! Anglicized to the core. Is that Harriet Tubman, the saint to slaves with a scar who delivered many through treacherous nighttime escapes, or someone that could be named Maureen O’Doull?
Fuck these people.