American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr went to Jamaica for a three-week writing retreat in January and February 1967, where he penned an economic manifesto called Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.
“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective,” he wrote. “The solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.” In an article in Look magazine soon after he was assassinated on 4 April 1968, King, the original democratic socialist, called for an economic bill of rights […]
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