Re: [Marxism] Martin Luther King Jr. never once questioned the single issue thrust...

[Carl Webb <carlwebb@xxxxxxxxx>]

My Palestinian girlfriend disagrees that demands for her right of
return works in favor of imperialism.  What if MLK was Palestinian?

On 7/6/05, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >And you think that was correct?  Not everyone applauds MLK.
> >
> >Carl
> 
> Of course it was correct for MLK Jr. to agree to speak out against the war
> without demanding that the coalitions of the 1960s raise "anti-racist"
> slogans to the same level as immediate withdrawal from Vietnam. He
> understood that united, mass action against the war was in the interests of
> the Black community. You can read the speech in which he comes out
> initially against the war here:
> http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html. When MLK Jr. wasn't
> speaking out against the war, he was organizing black sanitation workers,
> etc. The notion that you have to mechanically tie a bunch of social
> movements together as a precondition for opposing the war in Vietnam or
> Iraq is ridiculous. What the people of Iraq (and Palestine and Haiti) need
> is a *massive* turnout on Sept. 24. Any activity that cuts against that
> works in favor of imperialism, no matter the radical rhetoric it is
> packaged in.
> 
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