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It's Martin Luther King jr. Day [1]
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Date: 2025-01-20
We have all heard about MLK’s essential work on civil rights, and his devotion to Gandhian non-violence, but his economic message often gets lost. In his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? he pushed for a Universal Basic Income, as well as radical reform of regulated industry, and the dismantling of systemic economic cruelty to all, Black, White, or whatever.
King's argument for a basic income system to improve the U.S. economy and statements against wealth inequality have been cited by a wide variety of later publications. Examples include academic and economist Guy Standing's 2014 book A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens and professor P.L. Thomas' 2012 book Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education.[3][4] The revamped 2010 version of King's work was highlighted in a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries, and was recommended for use in teaching.[2]
Another vital part of his legacy was working with Christians, Jews, and others, and taking up Gandhi’s non-violent methods, developed out of Hindu and Muslim roots. The essence of all of them, in his view, was giving up insistence on selfish individualism and tribal nationalism, and working for the good of all.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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