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“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes have visited relentless persecution on them and received their teaching with the most savage hostility, the most furious hatred, the most ruthless campaign of lies and slanders. After their death, attempts are made to turn them into harmless icons, canonise them, and s…
“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes have visited relentless persecution on them and received their teaching with the most savage hostility, the most furious hatred, the most ruthless campaign of lies and slanders. After their death, attempts are made to turn them into harmless icons, canonise them, and surround their names with a certain halo for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping them, while at the same time emasculating and vulgarising the real essence of their revolutionary theories and blunting their revolutionary edge.” V I Lenin
Hell, at the time of his assassination, MLK was in ill graces with liberals for his opposition to the Vietnam War in particular and American imperialism in general, since these were championed by LBJ and the Team D mainstream.
Very insightful. That's indeed exactly what the ultra-wealthy hierarchical ruling class does. https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies