MLK Jr. was in Memphis to stand with 1,300 striking sanitation workers, a move that confirmed the FBI’s worst fears. Internal memos from the Bureau had already marked him as a potential Black Messiah, a leader capable of welding the dispossessed into a militant front against the profit motive.
Since his death, the liberal establishment has performed a second assassination on his legacy. They have scrubbed the anti-imperialist fire from his throat and replaced it with a porcelain silence that serves the status quo. Every January, the state performs a ritual of hollowed-out reverence through Martin Luther King Jr Day, where liberal politicians weaponise his quotes to pacify the same people they continue to exploit.
The revolutionary who demanded a radical redistribution of wealth is now a harmless mascot for a progress that remains a lie. This sanitisation is a weapon used against the communist struggle today. The state still fears the unity of the marginalised, from the picket lines to the Roma camps. To reclaim King is to recognise that the war against the market is not a historical relic but an active, breathing necessity.
We are still fighting the same machine that pulled the trigger in Memphis.
This is not the 'I have a dream' MLK by this time that 'dream' became a nightmare (his words), he demanded better for the black community from the government, and he was assassinated the very next day
King had been fighting for freedom for a while, but now he was speaking out against capitalism, too, and encouraging Black workers to demand more money, too much for the white man.
We are still fighting, marching, singing, praying, hoping....
