On several occasions, King told his aides that the US needed a democratic socialism that would guarantee jobs and income for all. ... Yet it wasn’t long after his death that the media hacks of the ruling class began to convert King into a harmless saint. To do this, however, they had to bury the real legacy of Martin Luther King — both the leader of the critical early struggles of the civil rights movement who refused to accept pleas for patience and moderation from his liberal Democratic allies, and the more radical black leader of the late 1960s whose vision of what needed to be changed in society had widened enormously.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:09:24 +0000
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