The Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 diagnosis of the "giant triplets" is a precise theological and political antecedent to the New Conscientious Objector (NewCO) concept of Christian Colonial Capitalist Violence (CCV). King identified that these forces—racism, materialism, and militarism—are not separate societal ills but a single, fused architecture of oppression where participation in one component supports the whole.