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did i just step out of a time machine into 1969? these Anti-Imperialist (tm) Revolutionary Anarchists have opened their World Historical Important Document with a quote from the famous Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Anarchist of World Historical Imporance... MLK Jr?! somebody should have informed these revolutionary anarchists that even if a bourgeois liberal (possibly even a social democrat) -- but especially a fucking preacher, purveying the slave morality of the Toad from Nazareth -- might tell the truth at some point in their career as a public figure, that truth is based on their bourgeois liberal (possibly social democratic) worldview, and that it definitely has nothing in common with any sort of revolutionary anarchist perspective. to impose a more radical meaning on a non-radical statement from a non-radical is a way to ingratiate these Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Anarchists to... bourgeois liberals and possibly social democrats. it is fundamentally dishonest to invoke someone like MLK, Jr (whose promotion of negotiation with, and eventual reliance on, state forces to ameliorate the horrors of Jim Crow is undeniable) to make a point about the horrors of international violence orchestrated by state forces. better to quote or paraphrase an actual revolutionary anarchist like Bakunin (who all those Revolutionary Anarchists who believe in Organization love to quote) about how the state is the greatest organizer and purveyor of violence in the history of humanity. oh, but quoting a dead white man wouldn't be good Anti-Imperialism, now, would it? surely the self-important bloviator Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Anarchists of the self-parodic BR/RNAF might have found something similar from the writings of Louise Michel, Voltairine de Cleyre, Tsui Jun, Fumiko Kaneko, the brothers Flores Magon, Lucy Parsons, Liu Shifu... but of course that would require that these know-nothing fake proles actually deign to read a fucking book once in a while (see the TOTW about how these serious activists might think about something so trivial as theory).