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AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:52 PM Feb 2016

Martin Luther King was a Democratic Socialist

"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism. There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism."
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/martin-luther-king-was-a-democratic-socialist_b_9008990.html
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Martin Luther King was a Democratic Socialist (Original Post) AZ Progressive Feb 2016 OP
J. Edgar Hoover didn't go after MLK because of racial issues jberryhill Feb 2016 #1
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. J. Edgar Hoover didn't go after MLK because of racial issues
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:09 PM
Feb 2016

Hoover's REAL problem with MLK was that white liberals felt enough sympathy for the racial problems, that they were overlooking the fact MLK was a COMMIE.

MLK wasn't believed by the FBI to be dangerous for any reason having anything to do with race.
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