Jesus Christ: Historical Materialism, Class Conflict, and the Jesus Movement
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The Psychological Effects of Millenarianism
In the American context, it was a matter of routine to kill figures like this. Jesus certainly knew that and so far as he was another one of these Jewish millenarian movements that he was almost certainly slated for some sort of death and execution at some point here in the US. The Black Liberation Movement and the civil rights era figures like Malcolm X,. like Fred Hampton, like Martin Luther King Jr. all were killed one way or another. And there was a sense in which they all knew it to varying degrees. It's a fascinating sort of psychological thing.
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