Martin Luther King was a Socialist!

[whiteguy212006]

@jayleeb1 Yea, typical lame response that I expected.

[whiteguy212006]

Down with democratic socialism, down with affirmative action, and down with the equal lie, that has been imposed on us.

[jayleeb1]

@whiteguy212006 Down with your stupid comment.

[gabiotta]

That is how the rest of the world thinks about him. I am not surprised that his reality has been doctored in the US.

[DrBandrew]

I hate how king's democratic socialism has been whited out of all history books and current political circles. he spoke for the workers black and whiteand spoke of bothe civil, and economic justice.

[Crackxyx]

class war only war

[freedomwalkers]

MLK believed in equal opportunity, this does not mean equal results, you cut and pasted snippets instead of the entire speeches. This is dishonest at best.

[perdondaris]

@freedomwalkers Socialism isn't the welfare state or a redistribution of wealth. It is about the creators of wealth (the proletariat) enjoying the wealth that they (and themselves alone) create. We have a redistribution of wealth--from the working poor to the idle capitalist rich. The workers have to do it themselves. You can't count on a politician or a businessman or a writer. You have to organize and take back the power--peacefully if you can, violently if you must.

[merchan5967]

@perdondaris Finally someone sees it the way it is. Thank you.

[ninjapirate0507]

@perdondaris It requires redistribution of the wealth to enact though, but this is good because it's giving the wealth back to the working class that created it.

[merchan5967]

@freedomwalkers Socialists believe not in equal results, but we believe in both equal opportunity and EQUAL MEANS. Because without equal means, there can be no equal opportunity.

[Jayteah1953]

@merchan5967 And we believ in defeating Socialism by any means.

[DrBandrew]

@freedomwalkers no he was a self avowed democratic socialist. he was pretty open about it.

[TheCuppycakedelight5]

@DrBandrew how is he spreading socialism?

[DrBandrew]

@freedomwalkers he was also pro affirmatie action and anti war. fun facts

[awesomazinglyepicool]

YEAH! socialism for the win

[TruthSeeker24]

Dr. King explicitly wrote that Communism is wrong for it promotes a ethical relativism and a political totalitarianism.

[TruthSeeker24]

He wsn't a Communist. He criticized both Capitalism and Communism in public. He was a demosocialist by his own words. He was sincere and you can disagree with his economic, but it is what it is. Also, most black Americans don't support a welfare state permanent. We just believe that human compassion isn't just done by private services, but in public services as well.

[smileyfacemug]

@TruthSeeker24 I'm pretty sure he associated with democratic socialism.

[TruthSeeker24]

@smileyfacemug

I see your point indeed.

[Tougemaster06]

@TruthSeeker24 Democratic Socialism is a bit more substantive then a welfare state lol.... I would know since I am a card carrying member of DSA *Democratic Socialist of America*

[TruthSeeker24]

@Tougemaster06

I see you point. I didn't mention that demosocialism dealt with solely a welfare state. So, your sarcasm is your sarcasm. Dr. King's views are known.

[dubified89]

@TruthSeeker24 Yeah well most people who live a comfortable life don't do so via human compassion, they do so by providing goods and services that other people feel improve their lives so they voluntarily exchange money for them.

[arthurwbrandjr]

He was not a socialist. He was a big socialist. Good intentions, but still a socialist.

[DaHonestAbe]

Chris Hedges said MLK was a socialist, too.

[wshetterly]

I think it's so cool that Martin Luther King's message of radical sharing is getting nothing but likes. But then, most Americans believe in Jesus's message that the wealth should be shared and understand his cry in Luke, "Woe to the rich!"

[belvedere954]

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Communist and Communist backed (and that's not even the least of what he way). In fact, today many black-Americans are Communist and Socialist ideologically, as they support big government and the welfare state.



[PavedStones]

@belvedere954 MLK wasn't a Communist.. You can look it up quite easily

[TruthSeeker24]

Spending money for the military during WWII= the government spending money on the government anyway.

[TruthSeeker24]

You mean the free market without regulation. That tactic doesn't work. It's archaic. There is nothing wrong with free markets with regulations though. Glass Steagal refuted the old way.Also, in FDR's term, GDP growth came alive. WW2 involved spending cash for the war effort and domestic services. Spending money in the right way (without going to the extreme with it) caused economic growth. Also, cutting taxes for the middle class with a slight increase of taxes of the wealthy isn't Armaggeddon.

[bbrooks5709]

sorry aid is what actually put us deeper into the great depression what got us out of it was ww2 because jobs were needed to build up our military power. what makes our economy grow is cutting taxes across the bored STOP SPENDING let the free market run thats the way we did that i believe 4 times worked every time

[PavedStones]

@bbrooks5709 The US was a semi-planned economy during WW2! That's your example of the miracles of the free market? Seriously? lol

I'm starting to see what "free market" conservativism is all about: using public money to give the public better access to healthcare is "the Communists are coming to slit your throat", while massive deficit spending on tanks and bombs on behalf of the arms manufacturers and protecting transnationals' assets is free markets and democracy and fiscal conservatism. Yuck

[TruthSeeker24]

Aid is what gotten us out of the Great Depression and aid is what's needed today. Dr. King woke up about what was really doing in a higher level just before died.

[sickboy1015]

You could of been so much more if it weren't for aid. That was your death. And You Blindly thank the people nailing your coffin doors shut.

[raventakayama]

@sickboy1015 what?