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‘The intellectual ancestors of today’s racist Republicans called MLK JR a socialist too’
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:30 am
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:30 am
So says the useful token black left wing guest on the NPR propaganda show earlier.
He is either too dumb to know that he is talking about Democrats, or he is intentionally omitting that information with the woman host’s blessing so as to mislead the audience.
He is either too dumb to know that he is talking about Democrats, or he is intentionally omitting that information with the woman host’s blessing so as to mislead the audience.
This post was edited on 7/21/19 at 10:33 am
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Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:31 am to weagle99
These re-writers of history like to discuss the "big switch" where they argue that today's Republicans were the old racist Democrats and today's Democrats were the party of Emancipation.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:31 am to weagle99
Well, that and, I mean, MLK was a pretty avowed socialist.
The person making the "point" here has none.
The person making the "point" here has none.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:36 am to ShortyRob
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I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.
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And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society
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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.
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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.
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There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.
The not so famous quotes of MLK.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:51 am to weagle99
Actually, they called him a communist.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:52 am to beachdude
quote:which were the boogeymen at the time
Actually, they called him a communist.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:57 am to chalmetteowl
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which were the boogeymen at the time
While I don't agree with blackballing people, boogeymen infers it was a non-threat that didn't exist. For all his annoying bluster, Mccarthy was largely correct with his accusations.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:58 am to beachdude
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Actually, they called him a communist.
Which was also incorrect
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What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. 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.
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In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.
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With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.
His worldview was very similar to John Paul II.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:02 am to weagle99
quote:MLK was a socialist.
He is either too dumb to know
Hell, in the mid-1950's MLK had demonstrable ties, philosophical and personal, to the Communist Party. As his movement grew along with investigative scrutiny of it, he savvily shifted away from some of those connections. But that in no way changes accuracy of the claim.
Just as it would be accurate to note Communist associations in the backgrounds of both Brennan and Comey.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:13 am to CDawson
Does anyone think these people would be democrats in 2019?
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:14 am to weagle99
It just feels good, so they do it. A group hug and complimentary tall soy latte awaits in the green room. Catch is...dont leave that green room.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:16 am to weagle99
MLK didn’t even write his own speeches. Politicians, looking to pass their political agenda, had them written for him word by word. All MLK had to do is read them.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:18 am to weagle99
After achieving victory with equality, MLK shifted to economics to remain relevant. If he hadn’t been murdered, he would have entered the “Reverend Jackson” era of his public life. The full name of the 1963 March on Washington is the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. During it he made 10 demands including, #7 “A massive federal program to train and place all unemployed workers – Negro and white – on meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages.” and #8 “A national minimum wage that will give all Americans a decent standard of living. (Government surveys show that anything less than $2.00 an hour fails to do this.)” In the last months of his life, King was consumed with plans for a multiracial Poor People’s Campaign. He was on his second trip to Memphis to promote the sanitation workers when he was killed.
Yes, he was a socialist/communist and a civil rights leader.
Yes, he was a socialist/communist and a civil rights leader.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:20 am to weagle99
I was raised around southerners who were in their middle ages and older in the 60s, and they accused him of sleeping around and running cons, but not of being a commie. I thought the commie accusations were FBI territory.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:24 am to weagle99
Today’s democrats call themselves socialist.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:34 am to CDawson
How do these clowns reconcile LBJ and the Great Society?
Posted on 7/21/19 at 12:47 pm to weagle99
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The intellectual ancestors of today’s racist Republicans called MLK JR a socialist too
No, it was the FBI who said that. The same FBI they are fawning all over today.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 1:01 pm to DellTronJon
One of the great assfrickings of history perpetrated against the American story is the lie that Hoover was paranoid about Soviet subversion. Hoover was balls dead on
Posted on 7/21/19 at 1:11 pm to Jcorye1
quote:people at the time were just well trained to know the USSR was Communist, and we would never be
For all his annoying bluster, Mccarthy was largely correct with his accusations.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 1:17 pm to weagle99
MLK was more of a proto-Communist. He was also a womanizer (probably a rapist) and didn't exactly like homosexuals.
In their rush to saint him and his memory, the Left ignores plenty of uncomfortable truths about the man.
In their rush to saint him and his memory, the Left ignores plenty of uncomfortable truths about the man.
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