MLK and Socialism

anon_x0yge3i6m0bdz · Jan 17, 2022

A hero who aimed to end poverty for everyone while maintaining the Constitution, Dr. King was pegged as radical and terrorist by the conservatives in America, the same way they demonize everyone like me as radical for espousing the same beliefs today.

The media has conditioned generation after generation to not think for themselves, and fear-monger their increasingly uneducated base to use “socialism” like a curse word they must live in fear of.

“The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”

“Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.”

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”

“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”

“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”

These will never be the quotes conservatives cite when mainstreaming Dr. King’s legacy to make it palatable for white conservatives.

Conservatives don’t have arguments in opposition to King’s truth, and this is why the government and political movement sought and succeeded in silencing him.

anon_x0yge3i6m0bdz · Jan 17, 2022