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Curtis Yarvin

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

Here's another fun story that your researchers can bring up easily.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

Do you know the name Stanley Levison?

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

No.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

So Stanley Levison was, until 1956, I think he was not, it was not an official title, but he was basically the CFO of the Communist Party USA.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

He was the, kind of ran its financial operations.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

And in 56, or 55 really, he

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

realizes that the writing is on the wall for being a minion of Stalin.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

It's like McCarthyism has happened.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

It's like, you know, it's just Hungary has happened.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

Like, it's just not it's it's not it's not the vibe.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

It's not the thing.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

So Levison does this interesting thing where he does he decides to revive

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

a cause of the Communist Party from the 1930s.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

And he finds a black minister with a somewhat dodgy PhD and creates a movement and an organization and writes all of his speeches and manages his whole organization.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

Absolutely.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

This organization is called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

The preacher is Martin Luther King.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

And the funniest thing, here's a fun thing that you can do with Wikipedia.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

If you go to, you know, Stanley Levison's page, you will see that it says that Stanley Levison was influential in creating the SCLC.

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“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King

Go to the SCLC's page.

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