Ep. 43: Gil Schaeffer on Lenin, King, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

Luke talks with Gil Schaeffer about his recent article, “The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement,” including debates between the Revolutionary Union (RU) and Communist League (CL), Lenin’s theory of political consciousness and leadership, and the importance of Martin Luther King Jr.Gil has written several articles for the blog, including “Marxism Is Democratic Republicanism: The History of the Struggle for Equal Human and Political Rights From the Inside Out” and “The Democratic Constitution Strategy Is the Blueprint for a New Party; That Means Voting for Democrats in 2024, Even Biden.” He also played a large role in creating a new reader, “Recovering the Struggle for Equal Rights and Democracy,” and wrote a long work on Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), “You Can’t Use Weatherman To Show Which Way The Wind Blew.” I spoke with Gil about