on the anniversary of martin luther king's I have a dream speech let us remember that it was delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and that he was a staunch socialist and anti-imperialist
the last segment of the clip, repeated here, is why MLK (like brother malcolm before him) had to be stopped at all cost: he was calling for a revolutionary overhaul of the capitalist economic system
as MLK was growing increasingly radical he and brother malcolm would have been natural allies in the struggle against imperialism and for economic justice. they were already coming closer together before they assassinated malcolm. the powerful couldn't let this union come to pass
more details on brother malcolm moving closer to MLK, and MLK closer to brother malcolm in this piece https://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/19/Malcolmx.king/index.html
that bailey person is right when he says it's nonsense that malcolm renounced his support for revolutionary violence toward the end of his life and became some kind of liberal, as detailed in this thread https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1288274976492204032
for clips of brother malcolm speaking see this thread https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1265808489080926210
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