@olystuart

"I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human system it fail victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. So I think Bellamy is right in seeing the gradual decline of capitalism." -MLK Jr, in a letter to Coretta Scott who gave him the Bellamy book. Read the whole letter: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/coretta-scott (Pic from Bernice King on twitter)

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