Friday, February 10, 2012

Dr. King's Assassination

As I read Dr. King's last speech to the SCLC, I see that he was proposing libertarian socialism or even philosophical anarchism, which is aligned with Mahatma Gandhi and New Testament Christianity. But in the context of the Cold War, use of fully voluntary little "c" communism made King appear to be talking of big "C" Communism or Marxism, which is a murderous ideology that steals farms from farm families and leaves them to die in labor camps, etc. I think King's message was moral, promoted outside of a state apparatus, but his use of that one interchangeable word got him killed.