End austerity – and kickstart Martin Luther King’s revolution of values | Richard Kozul-Wright
by Richard Kozul-Wright from Economics | The Guardian on (#324CH)
Hyperglobalisation has concentrated massive wealth in a few hands, boosting the cult of materialism that the great civil rights campaigner warned us about
Fifty years ago, at New York's Riverside Church, Martin Luther King made a passionate plea for a more equal, more just, more peaceful and more dignified world. Calling for "a radical revolution of values", King concluded: "We must rapidly begin " the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
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