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- 4166BlackPantherism -> United States. one of the most effective North American Marxisms, but largely gets erased today. many people will claim it gets forgotten due to racism but I think there are actually other reasons it gets forgotten, one of them being that a great number of Black people have become anarchists and don't want to remember their own Marxism. (and a few of them have become Gramscians or critical theorists. not that that isn't respectable at least 1% of the time with people like W.E.B. DuBois. it improves when you throw minority demographics into it. I think it's White people doing critical theory that are more likely to make me tired.)
BlackPantherism gets the violet swatch simply due to the notion it correctly applies Materialism at small scales and "did a number of things right". the violet swatch doesn't mean it's literally the first known MDem, or that it's literally the first application of meta-Marxism. what it does mean is that whenever I write about what I think an MDem would be like I periodically reinvent something that sounds like what the Black Panthers did without being fully aware it happened; meta-Marxism "predicts" after the fact that they did things right. so I think it only makes sense to use swatches as if "molecular BlackPantherism" was the first named Marxism for meta-Marxism to be aligned with. that particular MDem is still totally hypothetical but it at least is closer to having been real than any other one.
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BlackPantherism
-> this has its own swatch now. it's mauve, so it will still be vaguely violet, but it's also dark like the symbols of the party. on the HTML stylesheet I made it about as dark as black coffee. on the terminal swatches I made it about eggplant color so it would show up. because 'eggplant' seems vaguely insulting in the age of the internet I prefer to call it the nsafu/safou swatch, still keeping the analogy to 'strawberry' and 'orange'. you can probably get something unflattering out of the shape of that or the way it's full of avocado-like oily mush but, well, at least those aren't popular metaphors as of right now that would occur to everyone.
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Ideology codes
- BP / BlackPantherism
- BP / Black Panther Party
