This quote from p. 2 "Defeating Dictators" by George B. N. Ayittey hits a little closer to home than I expected when I bought the book: "a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak." see: US GOP government coup #usdemocrats #booksky #readalong #readresistrise
I'm having a revolutionary readalong and you're all invited! First on the list: Prophet of Discontent about MLK's anti-capitalistic leanings and Defeating Dictators about how anti-fascist groups undermined leadership in African regimes!
#booksky #readalong #mlk #readresistrise #antifascist
--more complicated ways in which human beings are put into servitude--were absolutely central to King's critique of postwar capitalist society. 'We still have slavery,' he said bluntly in 1962, 'slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.'" (2/2) #booksky #blm #mlk #readresistrise
Martin Luther King Jr. recognized the requirement of forced labor to prop up a successful capitalist society. From Prophet of Discontent p. 6: "Concerns about the development of more complicated modes of human commodification and semi-commodification (1/2) #booksky #readalong #mlk #readresistrise
King "dreamed" of equality--and there is no space for equality in a capitalist society. (quote from Prophet of Discontent, p. 2) #booksky #readalong #mlk #readresistrise (3/3)
King continues "Since we know that the system [capitalism] will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system." MLK understood the problem with capitalism is that it requires a poor working class to function. #booksky #readalong #mlk #readresistrise (2/3)
On March 27, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. said "Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. Within this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level." #booksky #readalong #mlk #readresistrise (1/3)
