I’m still hearing the claim that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Marxist/Communist. I think his own words are the best answer to this claim.
A thread:
A thread:
2/X “During the Christmas holidays of 1949 I decided to spend my spare time reading Karl Marx to try to understand the appeal of communism for many people. For the first time I carefully scrutinized Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto.”
3/X “I also read some interpretative works on the thinking of Marx and Lenin. In reading such Communist writings I drew certain conclusions that have remained with me as convictions to this day.”
4/X “First, I rejected their materialistic interpretation of history. Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God.”
5/X “Second, I strongly disagreed with communism’s ethical relativism. Since for the Communist there is no divine government, no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles;
6/X …consequently almost anything – force, violence murder, lying – is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’ end.”
7/X “Third, I opposed communism’s political totalitarianism. In communism, the individual ends up in subjection to the state. … And if man’s so-called rights and liberties stand in the way of that end, they are simply swept aside”.
8/X “His liberties of expression, his freedom to vote, his freedom to listen to what news he likes or to choose his books are all restricted.”
9/X “Man becomes hardly more, in communism, than a depersonalized cog in the turning wheel of the state.”
