is this not a perfect description of what has happened re: MLK Jr.'s legacy?

[© tweed]

taken from Lenin's 1917 The State and Revolution:



During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Seems like it.

[TNF]

Yes, considering the fact that MLK Jr., an avowed socialist, is being invoked by racist libertarians like Ron Paul and weirdo libertarians like Glenn Beck, among others.

[H. Ross Peron]

MLK Jr. doesn't really fit this description as he was accepted by much of the establishment well before his death. I think Tom Paine fits better.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Yes, considering the fact that MLK Jr., an avowed socialist, is being invoked by racist libertarians like Ron Paul and weirdo libertarians like Glenn Beck, among others.