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What did he mean by this all-cops-always-bastards

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I’m not talking about communism. What I’m talking about is far beyond communism. My inspiration didn’t come from Karl Marx; my inspiration didn’t come from Engels; my inspiration didn’t come from Trotsky; my inspiration didn’t come from Lenin. Yes, I read Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital a long time ago, and I saw that maybe Marx didn’t follow Hegel enough. He took his dialectics, but he left out his idealism and his spiritualism. And he went over to a German philosopher by the name of Feuerbach, and took his materialism and made it into a system that he called “dialectical materialism.” I have to reject that.

What I’m saying to you this morning is communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.

MLK (1967)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Marx lacked idealism? That's what set him apart!

Rare MLK L.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

MLK Jr was an ultra? :yea:

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

He did “not left, not right, forward” but for real

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

snipes-hesitation

MLK was revisionist (I'm mostly kidding but still)

spoilerThe idea of him being more of a Hegelian than Marx is really funny though

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same thing chomsky-yes-honey and zizek-preference say. It's a Western Left thing: the USSR is proof that Marx went wrong because they're scary authoritarians; yet obviously the analysis is still good so they need to find a way to keep some distance from it while not discarding it wholesale.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, despite probably doing net good Chomsky's an Epstein associate and Zizek's probably an op despite having some insightful cultural critiques. Being insightful about Lacan and Hegel doesn't really mean shit when your entire schtick and reason you get published is being capitalism's "anti-capitalist" "communist." I have several of his books before he got even more craven, but he's functionally capitalism's court jester.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

THIRD WAY THIRD WAY THIRD WAY LIB

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

All my man wanted was some liberation theology.

Should've read Engel's letters on historical materialism too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

MLK: Enlightened Centrist

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Oh shit MLK was a techbro TIL

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Demsoc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

jesus christ this is incredibly cringe

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yikes 😬😬😬 welp our heroes can't be right all the time