Wow, a black American who lived entirely before the GOP implemented the Southern Strategy was a Republican? That's pretty wild.
It was an interesting time of transition for both parties. There's a lot of nuance that a professional historian could parse out about it but, unfortunately it flys over most people's heads because they don't want nuance, they just want a cheap missile to lob at their opponent. It makes me disappointed because I enjoy learning history and always want to understand the full scope of what happened.
Dinesh D'Sleazy
This could be the day you enlighten someone and make someone realize they enjoy learning about history!
Basically why I wanted to be a public school teacher.
Deepest condolences.
Good observation. My dreams are pretty much dead at this point.
Conservatives don't believe in the party switch or whatever it's called.
We should take down confederate statues since the democrats were founded by slaveowners 
That's funny, because the GOP officially apologized to the NAACP not that long ago for doing it.
If MLK talked about about liberals being bad then he must have been a Republican because all politics is just a binary of Democrats and Republicans
I sincerely hate that an American asked me "Are you liberal or conservative?", to which I responded "I'm neither." Then he said "Okay, what are you then?", to which I responded "I'm a communist."
And unsurprisingly... he responded with "That's liberal."
Yikes.
"Both of your options were liberal"
If there's ONE thing I make clear to those around me, is that a communist is NOT a liberal. At least in the cold war a red could get properly called a red.
To be fair most "communists" are liberals.
hope someone explained it to him in the 12.5 years since this tweet
I'm sure somebody-
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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)
Marx lacked idealism? That's what set him apart!
Rare MLK L.
MLK ULTRA L
MLK Jr was an ultra? :yea:
He did “not left, not right, forward” but for real
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
Same thing 
and 
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.
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.
THIRD WAY THIRD WAY THIRD WAY 
All my man wanted was some liberation theology.
Should've read Engel's letters on historical materialism too.
MLK: Enlightened Centrist
Oh shit MLK was a techbro TIL
Demsoc
jesus christ this is incredibly cringe
Death to America
Yikes 😬😬😬 welp our heroes can't be right all the time
Frederick Douglas too!
The Republican party was the party of equality, of Lincoln!
WAS...
If you think about it, Donald Trump is basically the modern day Abraham Lincoln
Of course he was a republican, bro was a christian fundie 💀
I hope you're embarrassed by how bad this comment is.
I will never be ashamed of my bad posts.
Before Jimmy Carter, most evangelicals didn't vote.
And with your help we can make sure they don't ever do it again.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
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