MLK, democratic socialist/left-libertarian
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.–Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words at least as relevant today as they were 41 years ago, exactly one year before King would be assassinated.
Andrew Golis comments, in an essay entitled “The Santa Claussification of Martin Luther King, Jr.”:
on today of all days, it’s worth considering the fact that one of America’s greatest intellectuals and activists, possibly the most powerful leader in the history of the American Left, is remembered condescendingly as a cartoon version of the challenging man he was. It’s worth considering his lost legacy and the mechanism through which we lost it.
Indeed, in many respects the American left died the day the assassin’s bullet felled one of the greatest Americans of any generation, at the age of 39. I wonder how many Americans even think of MLK when they think of “the left” (or vice versa). Not many, I suspect. And therein lies a great victory for the right in the struggle for ideological hegemony.