ABSTRACT
Robert Francis Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King were engaged in the process of developing a concept which, in succeeding decades, would come under the rubric of "human security." Before King's assassination, Robert Kennedy’s plans for the Poor People's Campaign and for another march on Washington had been the subject of secret meetings within the national security establishment, and elements of the Central Intelligence Agency, and other networks within the United States intelligence community. Malcolm X, King, and Robert Kennedy were threatening the delicate balance of power within an American social structure that was grounded in racist practices and ideologies, and an ideology of white supremacy that sought to maintain racial subordination. In the tradition of Robert Kennedy and King, Professor Mark David Wood argues that the struggles for ecological integrity, human rights, and social justice should be explicitly linked to the goal of socializing production to satisfy human needs.
