Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Radical and a Socialist

  

Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Moderate,

 

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."

In a 1961 speech to the Negro American Labor Council, King proclaimed, "Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children."

Post up on DSA’s  North Star blog by Peter Dreier. 

 

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