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The government at the time saw communism everywhere and Hoover's FBI was eager to paint any dissenter as a communist. The civil rights movement and racial relat
by glurgh 13y ago
The government at the time saw communism everywhere and Hoover's FBI was eager to paint any dissenter as a communist. The civil rights movement and racial relations in the US themselves were used for propaganda purposes by the Soviet Union. The evidence of MLK's 'communist leanings' of any significance is pretty weak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#Allegations_of_communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#Allega...
The idea that Hoover's FBI was somehow 'executing the will of the people' rather than the will of J. Edgar Hoover seems pretty tenuous.
- mjn 13y agoOne bit of evidence supporting that view is that COINTELPRO targeted not only King, but basically the entire civil-rights movement. The NAACP, CORE, the SCLC, etc. were all targeted as potentially subversive. Which in a way they were, since their purpose was to oppose the prevailing social policy in much of the country.
- gruseom 13y agoThe evidence of MLK's 'communist leanings' of any significance is pretty weak. Pretty weak, or non-existent? Unless I'm missing something, that Wikipedia page doesn't contain weak evidence, it contains no evidence.
- glurgh 13y agoIt's just a roundabout, equivocating way to say 'you're full of it', since that would be rude and against site guidelines.