So was every other Liberal organization at the time. The political spectrum was very different then, and Communism was still supported by many.
This doesn't change the fact that King was a Christian, a peddler of the opiate, no? bayard Rustin was also openly gay. Do you think that means King must've really liked homosexuality, too?
here are King's thoughts on Communism:
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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.
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It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to ad just to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. Therefore, communism is a judgment against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
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King saw Communism at best as an over extention of some good ideas, but clearly never embraced it in his own philosophy, nor his speeches. Do you think the founders of ANSWER--apologists for N. Korea's regime--would mesh with King's thoughts above?
No, but they will gladly take him out of context in order to promote their own agenda.
And hey, thanks for the "reality check."
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