Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote

“During the Christmas holidays of 1949 I decided to spend my spare time reading Karl Marx to try to understand the appeal of communism for many people. For the first time I carefully scrutinized Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto,” he wrote. “I also read some interpretative works on the thinking of Marx and Lenin. In reading such Communist writings I drew certain conclusions that have remained with me as convictions to this day.”

Then King listed the three reasons he could never accept Marxism.

“First, I rejected their materialistic interpretation of history. Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God,” he wrote.

Marx’s theory of “dialectical materialism” (and the conjoined theory of “historical materialism”) instead envisioned the human race as a one-dimensional economic creature.

“Second, I strongly disagreed with communism’s ethical relativism. Since for the Communist there is no divine government, no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently almost anything – force, violence murder, lying – is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’ end,” he wrote.

The second point, closely related to the first, recognizes that anyone who rejects transcendence and revelation must, by extension, deny any universally binding morality. The world then becomes a patchwork of competing moralities, begging the strong to impose their will upon the weak. King consistently disowned those who spoke of prevailing in their political cause “by any means necessary.”

“Third, I opposed communism’s political totalitarianism. In communism, the individual ends up in subjection to the state. … And if man’s so-called rights and liberties stand in the way of that end, they are simply swept aside,” King wrote. “His liberties of expression, his freedom to vote, his freedom to listen to what news he likes or to choose his books are all restricted.”

“Man becomes hardly more, in communism, than a depersonalized cog in the turning wheel of the state,” King concluded."
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The 3 reasons Martin Luther King Jr. rejected Communism
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by Rev. Ben Johnson • January 15, 2018

“Communism is quite concrete in its ethical and moral foundation.” If communism isn’t the most unethical, immoral and devastating to the human experience, it is a close second. Communism “is religion” that is not relative to ethics and morals. Communism is religion, NOT science ! Sillik, please prove communism is science (through scientific method - complete with examples) - you CAN’T !!

Socialism is: any of various economic, religious and political theories, philosophies or movements outside nature’s law advocating collective or governmental / religious ownership and administration of property (real / chattel / sensorial beings, etc.) along with the means of production and distribution of goods. Religions and political theories / philosophies / abstract analogies do not qualify as a science. How does communism scientifically define murder and all other violences? Sillik, you are a theocratic / compulsive liar.

Fred, your rhetoric is not original in the slightest.  It is straight-up authoritarian, utopian, BS that can be found in any leftist classroom.  Please, quote me one single original idea out of the hundreds of posts you have made.

Mr. Archer, my slogan, Socialism is the challenge of socialized behavior to create is original and puts the whole ideology in the correct context and is simply understood by reasonable individuals of which you are sadly not associated. The ideological format is the key to human survival. 

Truth stands unassisted, not requiring constant affirmation to assert its presence.

The core of truth lies in the understanding that while man is born free, not bound by the need for governance, he is inherently subject to the laws of nature embedded within reality—laws that must be discovered rather than created. The principle of cause and effect, encapsulated in the proverb "As you sow, so shall you reap," serves as the first law of nature, and thus follows the Golden Rule: treat others as you would wish to be treated.

The imposition of one man's will over another, contrary to their wishes, directly contradicts these natural laws, a contradiction that becomes evident when the Golden Rule is ignored. Socialism is an imposition under the guise of benevolence—driven by unchecked greed and hubris. Its unsustainable foundations predict an inevitable collapse.