the zeitgeist in which the black panthers themselves were inserted (the hippie/counterculture movement of the 60s and the new left) glowed in the dark as fuck to tell the whole truth, that's why they were full of thugs, drug dealers and prostitutes, who were the lumpenproletariat in communism, considered by marx as social scum that are more easily manipulated by capitalists to undermine his revolution.   03/zebra-san-francisco-tale-part-i. html > if the serial killers weren't enough, the late 1960s and early 1970s also saw the rise of various radical organizations identified with the 'new left,' many of them based out of the san francisco-santa cruz area. some of the most notable of these organizations included the black panther party, founded in oakland, and its even more militant splinter group, the black liberation army; and the symionese liberation army, the kidnappers of heiress patty hearst who have drawn so much attention in conspiracy circles of late. we'll examine some of the conspiracy lore concerning this outfit a bit later. there was also the new york-based weather underground, who were active in san francisco by 1970 > the new left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms the new left transformed the class struggle into identity struggle, that is, it is no longer fomenting and agitating the division and antagonism between rich (bourgeois) and poor (proletarian), but between everything and everyone, but always from the perspective of oppressor x oppressed (man x woman, white x black, straight x gay, etc.). literally divide and conquer.
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