There is something wrong with capitalism, -- Martin Luther King, Jr., in a 1967 speech. In that speech, called Where Do We Go From Here, King described, in great detail, just what was wrong with capitalism: There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And Im simply saying that more and more, weve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society...And you see, my friends, when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, Who owns the oil? You begin to ask the question, Who owns the iron ore? You begin to ask the question, Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world thats two-thirds water? These are words that must be said. On a number of other occasions King called for radical changes in the structure of American society and a redistribution of wealth and power in the United States. huffingtonpost/dion-rabouin/martin-luther-king-capitalism_b_2506893.html
Posted on: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:06:26 +0000
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