mlk-yes

I am glad more and more right wingers, even if still fringe, are finally starting to understand (if still very poorly) that MLK would have despised them and everything they stood for. Then they drop the mask and start talking like 60s Dixiecrats, loud enough for others to hear.

I, for one, encourage them to continue to “smear” one of the most beloved (if whitewashed) figures in America as a commie, which although isn’t accurate is far closer to what he actually was. It might help people get a clue and read more into the Civil Rights Movement’s history. Part of what helped me in my ideological development was learning how the US’s social advances came in spite of the “liberal democratic” system, and socialists/communists were fighting for these causes before it became fashionable for liberals to do the same.

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    10 months ago

    I once mentioned Das Kapital to a professor who was giving us a chapter on Horkheimer and Adorno but she had no clue what Das Kapital was.

    Jesus fuck. How is that even possible?

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      10 months ago

      shrug-outta-hecks she was pretty cool otherwise but it was insane, I was literally not even a legal adult at the time and I was like, lady, you can learn this stuff on Breadtube. We even read Pablo Neruda in that class and she mentioned he was a communist! Didn’t mention his admiration for Stalin and all the fights he got into with other Latin American leftists, in which he tended to be the most hard line orthodox Marxist etc etc. I guess she just stayed in her own lane of literary criticism and didn’t look outside much.