>> We sick an tired of-a your ism-schism game -
Dyin and goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you cant fool all the people all the time. <<
I think this is clever forked-tongue speech: it sounds like Lennon enough for the college-campus Leninist/Lennonist fans, but to his Jamacian base it sounds like an assertion that He has returned. But the point is unmistakably Marxist/materialist: “don’t live to prepare yourself for heaven, but rather focus on earthly things; Jesus ain’t up there.” Of course, this isn’t necessarily any more leftist/atheist than many Catholic missionaries I’ve heard, but I’ve told them that they were Marxist tools to their faces too, and directed them to read genuine Catholic literature like “The Soul of the Apostolate.”
Again, I look at it in terms of the Five Percent Nation, Ausar Auset, and a number of other black nationalist ideologies. They have a common thread of divinizing the earth and black people, while denying the existence of spiritual beings as "spook" philosophy invented by whites.
It would seem to dovetail nicely with Communism in som,e regards, except that even Communism and its abstract concepts like "dictatorship of the proletariat" and "dialectic" are considered too theoretical and inauthentic to express pure blackness.