Norman Finkelstein: "Why isn't Angela Davis asking herself: 'why am I getting all these hysterical warm receptions from all of these filthy rich crooks'?"
Also see: duplicitous SPD in interwar Germany under Ebert, Constantine's recuperation of Christianity effectively neutering its symbolic class conscious political potential under the rebranded "Holy" Roman Empire, etc.
Do capitalists still need those types of figures? Did they not complete their revolution many decades ago? Do they need to justify themselves at this point when they already control all levers of power?
MF_COOM directly answered dis, but here's some perhaps relevant consideration from that Marx guy.
Also see: duplicitous SPD in interwar Germany under Ebert, Constantine's recuperation of Christianity effectively neutering its symbolic class conscious political potential under the rebranded "Holy" Roman Empire, etc.
Do capitalists still need those types of figures? Did they not complete their revolution many decades ago? Do they need to justify themselves at this point when they already control all levers of power?