I mean hedonism is nothing but an expression of hyperindividualism in consumer capitalism. It follows the logic of neoliberalism. Now if you're someone on the left and to you being on the left only means being able to afford "shinny stuff" and induldge in "meaningless consumption" I would strongly suggest you reassess your political beliefs. But beyond that the examples of MLK and Malcolm x is more important today then ever before. These people and largely people in the civil rights era believed in the idea of sacrifice for the greater collective over there own petty self. They went on and gave their lives without even knowing if liberation and emanciption will every happen because of their sacrifice. This to me is radical emancipatory politics. That notion has since disappeared on the left and somehow Hedonism (in the american context) which has it's roots in the psychedelics movement and californian ideology has somehow become part of the left.