As we celebrate the MLK holiday on the anniversary of his birthday, let us reflect on how the legacy of King went behind civil rights for African-Americans and went to the core of the democratic socialist vision of freedom, justice & equality-political and economic as well as social. Dr. King not only spoke out against racism and racial inequality, but class inequality. He called for a redistribution of wealth. He opposed militarism and the Vietnam War. He supported the "war on poverty" along with socialists like DSA founder Michael Harrington, but was critical of the U.S. government, both Democrats and Republicans, for not going far enough to address the social problems of poverty and inequality in American society.
Martin Luther King, Economic Justice, Workers Rights, and Multiracial Democracy
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Road to Socialism
MLK Day: The Gulf Between Promise and Fulfillment
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
What Did MLK Say About War Costs?
The King They Won't Celebrate
The Revolutionary MLK
Report: Massive Movement Needed to fix "Perverse Concentration of Wealth"
MLK in his Own Words
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Road to Socialism
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