MLK: Advancing the World by Opposing It

EVERY YEAR,ON MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, at least one conservative republican tries to make a conservative republican out of Martin Luther King, posthumously. Tries to associate the iconic King with good, solid, traditional, conservative American values. Somehow, it never seems to work out. Martin ther King no matter how hard you try, simply cannot be turned into a conservative republican. But, because of his populairity, they try. They start by pointing out that King was a registered Republican when he was young, and that he often proclaimed his belief in hard work. They neglect to point out that King turned democrat early, that he was a liberal, and that during the last few years of his life he was in fact a socialist revolutionary. On the day he was murdered, he was in Memphis to support a strike by the city sanitation workers. ing had decided taht attacking racism wasn't enough; you have to attack poverty and economic inequality in general, in order to change the fundamental nature of society. Late in his life, Martin Luther King waas advocating redistribution of wealth, straight out. "The world advances only because of those who oppose it". said Goethe. MLK sought to advance the world, and he did so in the only way possible; by opposing it.