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Books by Martin Luther
King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Strength to Love /
The Measure of a Man /
Why We Can't Wait
A Testament of Hope /
A Knock at Midnight /
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1948-1963
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community /
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
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Martin Luther
King Jr. vs The New World Order
By
Junious Ricardo Stanton
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when one tries to pin down advocates of
violence as to what acts would be effective,
the answers are blatantly illogical.
Sometimes they talk of overthrowing racist
state and local governments and they talk
about guerrilla warfare. They fail to see
that no internal revolution has ever
succeeded in overthrowing a government by
violence unless the government had already
lost the allegiance and effective control of
its armed forces. Anyone in his right mind
knows that this will not happen in the
United States. In a violent racial
situation, the power structure has the local
police, the state troopers, the National
Guard, and finally, the army to call on, all
of which are predominantly white.
Furthermore, few, if any, violent
revolutions have been successful unless the
violent minority had the sympathy and
support of the non-resisting majority.
Castro may have had only a few Cubans
actually fighting with him and up in the
hills (Yes), but he would have never
overthrown the Batista regime unless he had
had the sickness of the vast majority of
Cuban people. It is perfectly clear that a
violent revolution on the part of American
blacks would find no sympathy and support
from the white population and very little
from the majority of the Negroes themselves.
This is
no time for romantic illusions and empty
philosophical debates about freedom. This is
a time for action. What is needed is a
strategy for change, a tactical program that
will bring the Negro into the mainstream of
American life as quickly as possible. So
far, this has only been offered by the
nonviolent movement. Without recognizing
this we will end up with solutions that
don't solve, answers that don't answer, and
explanations that don't explain.”
Martin Luther King Jr. "Where Do We Go From
Here?" Annual Report Delivered at the 11th
Convention of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference 16 August 1967
Atlanta, Georgia |
As we celebrate the
life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., it is
supremely ironic that forty years after his murder which
was rooted in the very pathologies King singlehandedly
forced AmeriKKKa to face are alive and well.
Imperialism, militarism, racial superiority complexes
and corporatist fascism are like a massive cancer that
have metastasized during the past forty years to the
point AmeriKKKa is rotted at its core. The stench is so
foul now it can no longer be ignored, disguised or
hidden. The same arrogance, greed, and racism that
prompted the US to take the baton from France in an
attempt to maintain an European colonial death grip in
Vietnam under the guise of stopping global communism,
drives the US imperial machine today. Only now they
occupy, choke, bomb, plunder and murder Haitians, Iraqis
and Afghans in the name of their bogus Global War on
Terrorism.
Human beings are
creatures of habit. We tend to do the same things over
and over. So it is no surprise forty years later, the
same out of control military industrial complex is
shedding US blood, dissipating the US treasury and
expanding the powers of the police state at home.
Martin Luther King
Jr. was murdered for daring to challenge the status quo,
for forcing Joe and Jane Sixpack to look at how the US
system was responsible for much of the world’s
suffering. He became persona non grata for demanding a
systemic restructuring and redistribution of wealth in
AmeriKKKa.
While the US elites
claimed King was a communist, he was not. King knew
communism was a bankrupt ideology and plainly said so,
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I'm not talking about
communism. What I'm talking about is far
beyond communism. My inspiration didn't come
from Karl Marx; my inspiration didn't come
from Engels; my inspiration didn't come from
Trotsky; my inspiration didn't come from
Lenin. Yes, I read Communist Manifesto
and Das Kapital a long time ago, and
I saw that maybe Marx didn't follow Hegel
enough. He took his dialectics, but he left
out his idealism and his spiritualism. And
he went over to a German philosopher by the
name of Feuerbach, and took his materialism
and made it into a system that he called
'dialectical materialism'. I have to reject
that.
What I'm saying to you
this morning is communism forgets that life
is individual. Capitalism forgets that life
is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is
found neither in the thesis of communism nor
the antithesis of capitalism, but in a
higher synthesis. It is found in a higher
synthesis that combines the truths of both.
Now, when I say questioning the whole
society, it means ultimately coming to see
that the problem of racism, the problem of
economic exploitation, and the problem of
war are all tied together. These are the
triple evils that are interrelated.”
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
Annual Report Delivered at the 11th
Convention of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference 16 August 1967
Atlanta, Georgia |
King eloquently
called for a radical restructuring of AmeriKKKan society
and a re-examination of notions of wealth, justice and
brotherhood. He put his action behind his words often
finding himself alone, misunderstood and under
relentless attack from whites and handkerchief head
Negroes as he opposed the Vietnam War, the
socio-economic disparities at home, as well as
challenging the spiritual and psychological cancers rife
in AmeriKKKa. For this he was murdered.
But, wait, the
real irony is the ruling elites were also planning and
executing a radical restructuring of AmeriKKKan society
and a definite redistribution of wealth. Only their
plans call for the wealth to flow from us to them. The
culmination of their plan is what we see happening now
through globalization, the bogus War on Terror and the
current economic meltdown. As Joe and Jane Sixpack lose
their homes, their savings and their constitutional
rights in 2008, the same forces that profited from the
Vietnam War and AmeriKKKan apartheid in 1968, are
getting over like fat rats manufacturing ordnance that
will bomb babies around the world, incarcerate millions
in AmeriKKKa, terrorize AmeriKKKans in the name of a War
on Terror.
The military
industrial banking cabal working with their FBI and CIA
cohorts chose to “neutralize” (their term for murder)
King because they viewed him as a potential “Black
Messiah.” The Martin Luther King Jr. who was murdered on
April 4, 1968 was not the "I
Have A Dream" King the mind control apparatus keeps
pumping out despite the fact the beginning of his "I
Have A Dream" speech was a scathing indictment of
AmeriKKKa’s failure to live up to her promises and
creed. King was way ahead of his time. He was not the
Milquetoast sell out some have erroneously painted him.
King like Malcolm was keenly aware of the nexus between
European racism, imperialism, and global exploitation.
King too opposed
the New World Order of Western neocolonialism. He wisely
eschewed violence because he knew we were outgunned and
lacked the requisite organization, arms, or support. His
plan was to bring AmeriKKKa to heel via exposure,
economic boycotts, and civil disobedience. His Poor
People’s Campaign would have further embarrassed,
humbled, and disrupted business as usual. The ruling
elites could not tolerate that. So they ordered him
killed.
King was a major
casualty in the war against fascism. The general is dead
but his strategy will still work. In fact it is the one
sure way we all win, by using economic leverage to force
change. This is the most revolutionary thing we can do,
not spend our money to support a system that dehumanizes
us! Even the depraved Bu$h administration can’t put us
all in jail, fill up all the FEMA concentration camps or
the US Army labor camps because we refuse to support a
system that oppresses us. Food for thought as we
celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
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posted 17 January 2008 |
