Hodag like an Alp
"The tradition of all past generations weighs like an Alp upon the brain of the living."
sources:
The quote is from Marx' The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte originally published in 1852; Online Edition. Mountain View, CA: New York Labor News, December 2003.
The paragraph begins with the famous phrase about man making his own history--but not out of "whole cloth" and continues to describe "revolutionary epochs..." where people "anxiously conjure up into their service the spirits of the past, assume their names, their battle cries, their costumes to enact a new historic scene in such time-honored disguise and with such borrowed language."
The BPP logo was lifted from: Huey P. Newton "Huey, Newton Black Panther Minister of Defense" lithograph on paper with linen backing; Emeryville (CA): The Black Panther Party, 1968. PD-Public Domain by date published.
sources:
The quote is from Marx' The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte originally published in 1852; Online Edition. Mountain View, CA: New York Labor News, December 2003.
The paragraph begins with the famous phrase about man making his own history--but not out of "whole cloth" and continues to describe "revolutionary epochs..." where people "anxiously conjure up into their service the spirits of the past, assume their names, their battle cries, their costumes to enact a new historic scene in such time-honored disguise and with such borrowed language."
The BPP logo was lifted from: Huey P. Newton "Huey, Newton Black Panther Minister of Defense" lithograph on paper with linen backing; Emeryville (CA): The Black Panther Party, 1968. PD-Public Domain by date published.