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| | ::::::[EC] Oh please, the civil rights cause long predated neo-Marxist infiltration, being influential before then. It may have headed in a slightly different direction (notably since the conservative element, manifested by the Black and Tans, emphasized economic self-improvement before federal action), though crediting the movement in the mid-1900s to Communists is literally comsymp agitprop. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>(Matthew 26:52)</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 15:19, May 18, 2023 (EDT) | | ::::::[EC] Oh please, the civil rights cause long predated neo-Marxist infiltration, being influential before then. It may have headed in a slightly different direction (notably since the conservative element, manifested by the Black and Tans, emphasized economic self-improvement before federal action), though crediting the movement in the mid-1900s to Communists is literally comsymp agitprop. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>(Matthew 26:52)</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 15:19, May 18, 2023 (EDT) |
| | :::::::huh? what do you mean by neo-Marxist? | | :::::::huh? what do you mean by neo-Marxist? |
| − | :::::::The Marxist line, "religion is the opiate of the masses" carried weight with Italians and [[Eastern Europe]]ans, but backfired with American Blacks. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a chance'']]</sup> 15:22, May 18, 2023 (EDT) | + | :::::::The Marxist line, "religion is the opiate of the masses" carried weight with Italians and [[Eastern Europe]]ans (the people targeted by the 1924 Immigration Act), but backfired with American Blacks. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a chance'']]</sup> 15:22, May 18, 2023 (EDT) |
| | ::::::::Old-school Marxism is different from neo-Marxism. The form of Marxism in the U.S. that claimed to be pro–civil rights and which the New Left grew out of seemed to resemble neo-Marxism more than it does the old-school variant. | | ::::::::Old-school Marxism is different from neo-Marxism. The form of Marxism in the U.S. that claimed to be pro–civil rights and which the New Left grew out of seemed to resemble neo-Marxism more than it does the old-school variant. |
| | ::::::::Anyways, please don't expect me to believe the neo-Marxist propaganda line that Communists deserve credit for the civil rights movement as great saviors for blacks. I'm a hardline reactionary conservative, not a comsymp. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>(Matthew 26:52)</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 15:29, May 18, 2023 (EDT) | | ::::::::Anyways, please don't expect me to believe the neo-Marxist propaganda line that Communists deserve credit for the civil rights movement as great saviors for blacks. I'm a hardline reactionary conservative, not a comsymp. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>(Matthew 26:52)</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 15:29, May 18, 2023 (EDT) |