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)

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

Rare MLK L.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

MLK ULTRA L

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

alex-aware

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

MLK Jr was an ultra? :yea:

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

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

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

snipes-hesitation

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

spoiler

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

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months 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.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

THIRD WAY THIRD WAY THIRD WAY LIB

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

All my man wanted was some liberation theology.

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

[–] indred0@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 months ago

MLK: Enlightened Centrist

[–] miz@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

cringe

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

Oh shit MLK was a techbro TIL

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Demsoc

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

jesus christ this is incredibly cringe

Death to America

[–] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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