“The establishment’s use of civil rights concerns as a way to distract from the class struggle...”https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1220910807057219584 …
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That racial and class struggles had to be fought side by side, and that those who fight for one without the other are not truly allies.
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To think that MLK would say “oh yeah support the guy saying black people are like planet of the apes if it supports class struggle because thats more important” is a bit ridiculous Jeet.
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If you are asking what got him killed: Imperialism, capitalism and injustice everywhere.
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James Earl Ray's admiration for George Wallace and Rhodesia was due to their shared commitment to capitalism.
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What Micah beat me to, that the struggle for racial equality and the class struggle had to go hand-in-hand.
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Or are you arguing that MLK thought the class struggle took precedence over the fight for racial equality? Or as some would probably call it today, “identity politics”?
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Ponder the meaning of the word "establishment"
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