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“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

-Vladimir Lenin

The Panthers were well aware of the capitalist nature of the Canadian state and its oppression of indigenous peoples. Chairman Fred Hampton met with trade unionists and indigenous activists in Regina, SK in 1969, shortly before his assassination.