{"id":362957,"date":"2018-05-27T02:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/todays-poor-peoples-campaign-too-important-not-to-criticize\/"},"modified":"2018-05-27T02:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T01:02:44","slug":"todays-poor-peoples-campaign-too-important-not-to-criticize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/todays-poor-peoples-campaign-too-important-not-to-criticize\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Poor People\u2019s Campaign: Too Important Not to Criticize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On the progressive website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opednews.com\/\">OpEdNews (OEN)<\/a>, I recently posted a QuickLink to an article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/barber-sermon-militarism-reveals-philosophical-political-limitations-poor-peoples-campaign\">Black Agenda Report<\/a> by its managing editor Bruce Dixon. Seeking to get Dixon\u2019s piece maximal attention, I titled my framing introduction to it \u201cThe Most Important Political Article in Ages.\u201d Despite the appearance of advertising puffery, I was <em>not<\/em> exaggerating.<\/p>\n<p>To grasp why I find Dixon\u2019s timely piece so hefty, readers must understand my constant political perspective\u2014as an activist analyst intensely focused on strategy and organizing. Like Karl Marx in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/marx\/works\/1845\/theses\/theses.htm\"><em>Theses on Feuerbach<\/em><\/a>, I\u2019m inclined to say, \u201cThe philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.\u201d If the world we desperately wish to change is the hellhole of U.S. politics, <em>nothing<\/em> remotely rivals in importance the current attempt to revive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poorpeoplescampaign.org\/\">Martin Luther King\u2019s Poor People\u2019s Campaign (PPC).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But as we support that campaign, nothing is more crucial than keeping it true to the spirit\u2014and depth of underlying political analysis\u2014of Dr. King. Rightly conducted, today\u2019s PPC could be (pun intended) just what the doctor ordered. This is why principled PPC critics like Dixon (who shares King\u2019s race and radical socialist leanings, if not his religion) deserve our close and serious attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PPC\u2019s Enormous Potential: To Lead Us from Our Political Desert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a movement having, in King\u2019s day and now, roots in U.S. black churches, religious allusions and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/05\/todays-poor-peoples-campaign-too-important-not-to-criticize\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the progressive website OpEdNews (OEN), I recently posted a QuickLink to an article published in Black Agenda Report by its managing editor Bruce Dixon. Seeking to get Dixon\u2019s piece maximal attention, I titled my framing introduction to it \u201cThe Most Important Political Article in Ages.\u201d Despite the appearance of advertising puffery, I was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}