01/17/2022
What is now happening to Marx’s theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. 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. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). And more and more frequently German bourgeois scholars, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the “national-German” Marx, who, they claim, educated the labor unions which are so splendidly organized for the purpose of waging a predatory war!~Vladimir Lenin
State and Revolution
one of the most appropriate quotes to post on MLK's birthday because that is what they are doing to his image never forget that MLK himself was a socialist and wasn't against the violence or riots against oppression they are canonizing him and removing his revolutionary fangs to make him harmless to protect themselves we are socialist cannot allow this to happen we must protect and defend the active revolutionary legacy of Martin Luther King we cannot allow them to commodify him and make him a harmless figure that benefits them.
Martin Luther King's writings speeches and the movement he created are vital to society today in the struggle against settler colonialism and black liberation and we must understand until the settler colonialism has fallen and black liberation has been achieved socialism cannot be achieved either.