King was murdered by that system at least partially for those beliefs.
And that was before the Reagan giveaway, the conversion of the Corporate party’s former opposition party’s conversion into bribe taking neoliberals, and the icing on the cake of hopelessness, Citizens United which effectively made political bribery legal. The power King was speaking against has gotten much more powerful since that power ended his life.
This system needs to be destroyed and a new one rebuilt in its place. We can suffer the pain of that, or the generationial pain of subsistence until inevitable collapse under the weight of our own market capitalist con game having nowhere left to metastasize. Pain either way, but I’m guessing we’ll keep passing the buck because that’s the path of least resistance.
Yeah, they threatened and harassed Dr. King, but no one was taking a shot at him while he campaigned for civil rights. Once he started the Poor People’s Campaign and sought to unite all races against economic injustice, they killed him for it. That, and his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War.
Try not to belittle and ignore the hatred and violence the Civil Rights leaders faced simply for asking for equal treatment in your eager rush to claim victim status or whatever dumbassery made you think no one wanted to kill MLK purely on racial grounds.
This system needs to be destroyed and a new one rebuilt in its place. We can suffer the pain of that, or the generationial pain of subsistence until inevitable collapse under the weight of its own market capitalist con game. Pain either way, but I’m guessing we’ll keep passing the buck because that’s the path of least resistance.
Well said.
“all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” -TJ
I must sound like a broken record to you, my friend 🤣
It just helps me feel sane to lay out the same truths in the face of mass indolence.
Your original response was very aptly worded.
It’s still mind blowing that there are people, even here on Lemmy, still defending this broken system like corporate lap dogs.
“Mass Indolence” would make a great band game.
We can’t suffer the pain of going full no-confidence and refusing to vote.
TIL that an uncomfortably large number of people on Lemmy don’t know what the fuck a Tankie is, but think they do.
People on Lemmy call people opposing war and the military industrial complex Tankies.
It can be uncanny the gambit the term runs here.
Gotta imagine there’s a lot going on to poison the well. Doesn’t take much to cause in fighting around these parts.
Tankie is almost always “socialist I don’t like” or even “anyone to the left of Mussolini”.
Poor MLK can’t catch a break. Labelled a commie agitator for advocating black rights and saying things like “capitalism has outlived its usefulness”, gets murdered for it, now liberals pretend that never happened try to paint him as their guy all along
MLK was a commie ;)
Capital has the ability to subsume all criticism of itself.
As did absolute monarchies…
If MLK existed in current time, he would be called a tankie by most people on Lemmy.
His political ideas would be regarded as extremist, and the majority of the people here would not have supported him.
I still don’t get what tankie means…
Edit: None of those comments helped. Especially the guy who unironically used the word “centrist”.
The historic use of the word was to distinguish leftists who supported the Soviet Unions use of tanks to suppress a revolt in Budapest in 1956 from communists.
EDIT: Now it more generally refers to anyone who believes in Actually Existing Socialism, or AES, and by extension denies the categorization of State Capitalism, the predominant mode of production in the world today where governments employ the majority of workers.
although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well. Source.
Per Urban dictionary. Centrists use it to slur socialists/communists.
Not all socialists/communists are tankies, they’re the more extremist branch.
So extreme they horseshoed right around to dascism, don’t believe in worker enfranchisement and are indifferent about abolition of the commodity form…
Real (adjusted for inflation) Household Median Income is up over 3x since this quote by MLK.
Even todays poor are extremely wealthy compared to the poor when this quote occurred.
