"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 death, 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." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution Link

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    4 years ago

    "We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism."

    Almost always cut off from the quote when I see it.

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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        4 years ago

        yup same as with countless other things, the "this land is my land" property verse, and myriad other civil rights leaders you find out were socialists when you look into it but you never hear about that in school, or even on wikipedia sometimes. Real life conspiracy hours.