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BLM are Marxists - Or are they?

Sunday, June 7, 2020
Some Background on the Black Lives Matter Organization

With the ever-increasing prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement, it makes sense to take a look at the group.

Black Lives Matter was founded as an organization in 2013 in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin.

The organization was founded by three women, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.

Cullors, according to the Balck Lives Matter website, is a queer black woman and a Fulbright scholar. She is a board member of the Ella Baker (see below) Center for Human Rights. She is the 2018 recipient of the José Muñoz Award from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Garza is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. The alliance is "the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States." She is of mix-raced with a Jewish father and a black mother. According to the Black Lives Matter website, she also is a queer black woman.

Tometi is a New York-based Nigerian-American. She is credited with creating the online platforms and initiating the social media strategy during the project's early days. She has spoken at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Summit and she is co-author of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.

She is a student of liberation theology and her practice is in the tradition of Ella Baker, informed by Stuart Hall, bell hooks and Black Feminist thinkers. Baker was an important behind the scenes black activist for five decades. She was allied with The Third World Women's Alliance, a revolutionary socialist women of color organization active from 1968 to 1980.

Hall was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist and political activist. He was founder of the New Left Review and was closely associated with the journal Marxism Today.

hooks is considered a postmodern political thinker. She has held positions as Professor of African-American Studies and English at Yale University, a hotbed of postmodernism and critical theory teaching.

Tometi is being featured in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum for African American History and Culture.

The website informs that Black Lives Matter attempts to...
disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.In other words, Black Lives Matter is an organization that appears to be promoting an agenda that goes far beyond the protection of members of the black community against police brutality. Its website says as much.

Further, the radical, anti-capitalist, left-leaning of the founders of the organization hints at the potential for the organization to move even further beyond what the organization name suggests. Perhaps a more appropriate name would be: Communism for Blacks Matters.

The ladies of BLM appear very sophisticated when it comes to tactics and strategy. Finding a hot button, such a police attacks on blacks, would make a very wise tactical move to advance a deeper agenda of a planned society.

-RW
https://www.targetliberty.com/2020/06/some-background-on-black-lives-matter.html
 
Marxism is all about overthrowing
capitalism and establishing a classless
utopia. The working man is seen as
a victim of the elite power structure.
To achieve equality there can be no
rich or poor, everyone lives with the
same income.
 
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Marxism is all about overthrowing
capitalism and establishing a classless
utopia. The working man is seen as
a victim of the elite power structure.
To achieve equality there can be no
rich or poor, everyone lives with the
same income.
That's in theory. In practice it's conform or die.
 
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A BLM leader in New York City said:
"When a black man becomes a police
officer, he stops being a black man."
 
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I am certainly no fan of government police.

I devote plenty of space in my book, Foundations of Private Property Society Theory: Anarchism for the Civilized Person Paperback, to private alternatives to government police.

That said, I must issue a warning to commenters in recent posts here at Target Liberty where I discuss the Defund the Police movement. The comments are along the lines "Well, good riddance to the police."

This is a dangerous perspective in the current environment.

I don't desire public streets or sidewalks or air traffic controllers, for that matter, that are operated by government agencies.

At the same time, I don't want the current government-constructed streets and sidewalks to be torn up and left in the torn-up condition. I do not want government air-traffic controllers to be hauled off the job while planes are in the air. A move to private sidewalks streets and air-traffic controllers should ideally be done expeditiously but with the opportunity for private-sector alternatives to develop.

The current Defund the Police movement is not about the opportunity for private-sector police alternatives to develop. It is about a desire to destroy capitalism and any remnants of western civilization.

The powers behind the curtain of this movement are not proponents of private property. They are simply very aggressive seekers of power. They are not going to replace the current police with nice guy mall-type security. They will replace them with enforcers of the plans of the behind the curtain power regime.

This is an extremely dangerous group to support. They have no plans, zero, to make any advancements toward freedom and liberty. They must be stopped and battled at every juncture. Supporting them in any cause is supporting greater authoritarianism.

The leaders of the Defund the Police movement are extremely shrewd and steeped in strategy and tactics. They are not interested in any supposed black plight. It is simply a cause for them that can be exploited for their advantage. It's blacksploitation of the worst kind. The protesters you see on the streets are simply useful idiots.

Do not fall for the movement, it is extremely dangerous. It is the opposite of a move toward liberty.

-RW
https://www.targetliberty.com/2020/06/a-note-on-libertarianism-and-defund.html
 
Should it matter? If it was the other sides team leader you'd probably do your patented 'LOL'. Cmon guys, lets find some common ground through all this shit huh?
No, I wouldn't lol at that type of thing. I lol at blatant stupidity, hypocrisy, projection, ignorance, etc. And when someone challenges me to qualify my laughter, I do so.

I don't take shit out of context, I don't ascribe what one person says on one occasion to an entire body of people, etc. If you can find me doing that, let me know. I'm not saying I never have, but I sure as hell try to avoid doing that type of shit.
 
No, I wouldn't lol at that type of thing. I lol at blatant stupidity, hypocrisy, projection, ignorance, etc. And when someone challenges me to qualify my laughter, I do so.

I don't take shit out of context, I don't ascribe what one person says on one occasion to an entire body of people, etc. If you can find me doing that, let me know. I'm not saying I never have, but I sure as hell try to avoid doing that type of shit.
Agree to disagree then.
 
Agree to disagree then.
Find an example of me doing something as you suggest, finding something someone says—someone who is a leader of a group which I perceive as oppositional to my politics, pulling it from context, and zeroing in on it as some defining statement of the larger body—then ascribing that implicit/explicit position to the entire group.

I can virtually promise you that you will not find such a thing.
 
Sewing racial division.
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Find an example of me doing something as you suggest, finding something someone says—someone who is a leader of a group which I perceive as oppositional to my politics, pulling it from context, and zeroing in on it as some defining statement of the larger body—then ascribing that implicit/explicit position to the entire group.

I can virtually promise you that you will not find such a thing.
Virtual pinky swear?
 
BLM and antifa upper echelon really, really want dead bodies under soldiers feet merely for the bad optics. They tried it at the White House and they'll push it at future rallies until they get their photos and news stories at the expense of the dead.

 
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