"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
Honestly amazing that it's become mainstream to celebrate Fred Hampton. Even if Democratic party members use a watered down version, you'd think they'd be coy about celebrating a key figure in a Marxist-Leninist party.
Is it really a celebration if it's craven appropriation though?
He's trending on Twitter and neoliberals have no idea why. They're just procedurally generating meme responses to revolutionary sentiment and thinking about how to barely lose the next election cycle.