A good day for folks to understand what MLK understood: America is a monetary sovereign -http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/08/honoring-dr-kings-call-for-a-job-guarantee-program.html …
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After reading Dr. King's piece, I am confused about the basis of the claim that he rejected traditional Christianity. Could you clarify this? Thank you for the timely recommendation.
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Nietzschean's will to power is a life-affirming (Dionysian) attitude, rejected by MLK without providing any reasons. Gandhi's ethical values are fundamentally flawed.
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Gandhian ethics is tainted by a harmful anti-business bias and a highly destructive exaltation of self-sacrifice as a virtue. The good part (i. e. non-violence) is mostly Tolstoy.
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OK on Nietzsche and Gandhi, but MLK's Christianity was quite traditional -- if not fundamentalist -- and he began embracing socialism -- if not doctrinaire Marxism -- in his last two years. That essay is from 1958.
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And you omitted his objection to the Vietnam war and US militarism.
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@sapinker Not sure we read the same article: by far the biggest positive influences in it are Christianity, Ghandi, and (qualifiedly) Marx. Enlightenment thinkers are namechecked along with Plato and Aristotle -- that's it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Let's not forget what else was well understood by MLK: "Riots are the language of the unheard."
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Pinker throws his hat into the ring of milquetoast hacks who try to shoehorn King’s socialist, Christian, anti-imperialism into liberalism
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Rejected traditional Christianity? I never knew you were a theologian, but little Mr. King stated in this article can be grounds for outright rejection. The perils of modern times...an educated man speaking as if he’s educated in everything. Is an excellent read though!
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Is that 'the Jews should forget about moving to Palestine or resisting the Nazis and let themselves be slaughtered in the name of non-violence' Gandhi or some other less idiotic guy?
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doesn't mention Ghandi's racism???
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LOL. He loved communism and communist. What the hell is wrong with traditional Christianity? He was a Southern Baptist preacher. Get your history -- and your facts -- straight.
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He "learned" mostly from the wrong sources . . . with the execption of Gandi !
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At least he understood where money comes from. Pinker doesn't yet
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Of course, he did ! He was a pastor and a preacher . . . plenty of money there !
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1/. The federal government issues our national currency, thus funding private sector net savings - private debt - taxes - foreign trade. Only limit to gov spending is availability of real resources and inflation. Fed taxes regulate inflation by removing excess dollars.pic.twitter.com/FZmMvUBdTh
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2/. MLK, among other things supported a federally funded job guarantee. Thus the fed gov would be issuing our currency in the course of insuring full employment. If this causes too much inflation, you tax those inflation causing dollars away.
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But he had rejected Marx . . .
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Sure. But the fact that the fed government must pay for something in order to get dollars from the government sector into the private sector has nothing to do with Marx. It can buy a bomb or school. https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/smart-people-talk-about-government-buying-f805c18c4d31 …
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