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Add comment in the FBI section regarding the FBI's actions against other integrationist and segregationist groups as described in Donner's "The Age of Surveillance". Possible there was a clandestine policy to suppress all "serious" racial agitation, integrationist and segregationist. Also, possible it was felt racial agitation could not be tolerated during the Cold War. It seems obvious there was animosity toward Dr. King on Hoover's part but there may be more to it than that.
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Martin Luther King Junior was an important staple to the civil rights movement Organicmaterr3499 (talk) 09:17, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not done, since the lead has "who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968." in the first sentence. --Mvqr (talk) 09:49, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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@Randy Kryn:[1] There are six citations in the article that support it. From the article: King believed that capitalism could not adequately provide the necessities of many American people, particularly the African-American community. King expressed that "the evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism". ––FormalDude(talk) 23:02, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, check in politics section for any doubts. C0137Hatt (talk) 01:21, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No need to support or oppose, the category was put back Done by FormalDude after I thanked him for pointing that out. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:36, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Reliable sources don't agree on whether King supported the abolition of private property or workers control over the means of production. Some reliable sources describe him more as a social democrat than democratic socialist. Simply leaving "anti-capitalist" in the lead without context presents issues of WP: WEIGHT; modern social democracy is generally considered a form of capitalism, albeit heavily regulated. KlayCax (talk) 08:40, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Socialist quotes
There's recently been a dispute on whether these quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. belong in the article. I wouldn't be against it necessarily if it was an article surrounding his political beliefs exclusively. But I don't believe we can easily summarize or contextualize these statements (or historians views on them) without getting into problems. Since it appears that King is using the terms in a different way from what many people would interpret it to mean.
If you use a Marxist conception of capitalism and socialism, then I don’t think you can suggest that King was a socialist because he’s not calling for the abolition of private property in land, technology, resources, or finance. He’s not saying — not in his public writings — that wage labor is inherently exploitative. These are things that Marx would insist on. As much as he’s in favor of the labor movement and defends it, you don’t see King say anything like that. Now, maybe he thought it, somewhere, and he said it to someone, but it’s not in his public writings. He’s not defending it out front. Nor do you see him attacking the property question in that kind of militant way.
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I can understand people wanting to use King to advance a socialist cause, a cause I’m sympathetic to. But I don’t think it’s a good idea really to invoke him in this way without due care for what he actually says in his various writings and public speeches. People are really just drawing on, for the most part, a few remarks here and there that can be interpreted in a wide range of ways. So I suppose if you think Denmark is a socialist country, then I guess he’s a socialist. I do not myself think Denmark is a socialist country. But if you mean socialism in the sense that Marx and his allies meant, then I think it’d be pretty hard to make the case for that.
Without adding context and just including the quotes: Readers are going to get the impression that Martin Luther King Jr. held views similar to the Wikipedia article on democratic socialism. Which very likely isn't the case.
Most historians think King was a social democrat/left-wing American political figure. Currently, I think adding the quotes would likely lead to more confusion than understanding. KlayCax (talk) 15:38, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Why isn't his name Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on this page? His degrees were earned and when one has a doctorate we respect that. 24.121.72.18 (talk) 02:44, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: see MOS:REVEREND, we mention his degrees in the article, they just don't go in the first sentence like I think you're requesting Cannolis (talk) 03:05, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Done ––FormalDude (talk) 22:08, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Not done: see MOS:REVEREND, we mention his degrees in the article, they just don't go in the first sentence like I think you're requesting Cannolis (talk) 03:05, 12 January 2024 (UTC)