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.
I do like that even the AI generated MLK is giving a “dafuq?” kind of look.
That’s definitely the face I would make if I found out my likeness was being used to sell exploding garbage
I know there’s a quote about capital coopting revolutionaries but I
That’s it ty