<P> Establishing a clear contrast between his own views and that of the Black Power movement, King argues that abandoning the fight for nonviolent social change and replacing it with personal militarism tinged with black separatism is both immoral and self - defeating . He also criticizes moderate American whites for having inaccurate, unrealistic views of the ongoing plight of African - Americans, even after legal reforms undertaken under U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, and he asserts that radical change is still not only just but necessary . The then ongoing Vietnam War represents, in King's eyes, an immense waste of resources as well as a distraction from pressing domestic issues, the cost in lost lives making it all even worse . </P> <P> In economic terms specifically, the author cites philological thinker Henry George's Progress and Poverty while writing in support of broadly Georgist ideas, with King quoting George's text that "the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature...is not the work of slaves, driven to their task either by the lash of a master or by animal necessities ." King concludes that, rather than having a mere welfare state or a general class struggle, U.S. government measures should act more directly to benefit individuals by some kind of guaranteed income: </P> <P> I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective--the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income . </P> <P> Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and author of books such as Race Matters, remarked: </P>

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