The Black Panthers get a pass; they didn’t live long enough to become the villains, and there’s no guarantee that they would have. The BPP was far more prefigurative than vangaurdist, and it was the combination of these things that made them seem so threatening to the powers that be.
I didn’t say they weren’t, I just said their prefigurative politics were more prominent. I’m of the opinion that what someone does is more important than what they say, and if they hadn’t been undermined by COINTELPRO who knows where their thinking and organizational structure would have gone. I just think there was something truly transformative about the BPP that could have grown into something beautiful if they’d had the opportunity.
I marxism-leninism was at the core of the ideology though. All of their politics sprang from there. I’m not complaining or anything, but this poster is marxist-leninist propaganda.
The Black Panthers get a pass; they didn’t live long enough to become the villains, and there’s no guarantee that they would have. The BPP was far more prefigurative than vangaurdist, and it was the combination of these things that made them seem so threatening to the powers that be.
The bpp absolutely was a vanguardist party though??? They were an explicitly leninist party???
I didn’t say they weren’t, I just said their prefigurative politics were more prominent. I’m of the opinion that what someone does is more important than what they say, and if they hadn’t been undermined by COINTELPRO who knows where their thinking and organizational structure would have gone. I just think there was something truly transformative about the BPP that could have grown into something beautiful if they’d had the opportunity.
I marxism-leninism was at the core of the ideology though. All of their politics sprang from there. I’m not complaining or anything, but this poster is marxist-leninist propaganda.
Is it propaganda if it’s true?
Yes. Propaganda is media that is used to agitate a mass of people. It’s not inherently negative.
Yes. Most effective propaganda uses truth, but crafts a specific narrative by choosing which aspects to emphasize.