The reality of the BLM movement does not correspond to the mental image of media propagandists. BLM co-founders Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza are avowed and “trained Marxists.” They make no secret of their program to destroy America, as most know it.
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The BLM manifesto wants to overthrow the present “racist” society. BLM would replace it with a Marxist society embracing all “oppressed” groups and identities. Class, gender identity, sexual orientation, and illegal immigrants get special status. It is identity Marxism.
The movement seeks to “disrupt the nuclear family by supporting each other as extended families. They fantasize about “villages’ collectively caring for one another. Theirs is “a queer‐affirming network. They gather with the intention of freeing themselves from heteronormative thinking.” You can unravel that if you have the time to waste.
Its most dangerous belief is its adherence to class struggle ideology. It has been discredited for 150 years. But here they are attempting to apply it to their cause. It reduces all problems to a “systemic” racism. This amorphous claim presupposes a need to oppose all social structures and institutions.
Class struggle ideology creates a false division of society. It puts all racial and identity categories at war with the present established order. It is Marxism melded with identity politics.
Liberation theology and abolishing policing and prisons
The BLM movement wants to abolish policing and prisons. They see policing and prisons as instruments of white supremacist, capitalist, hetero-patriarchal imperialism. BLM targets all manifestations of capitalism as tools of oppression. This is evidence of its affinity for Marxism. It seeks to defer and eventually abolish rent, mortgages, and utility fees.
Its religious position resorts to the endlessly recycled liberation theology. It applies the Gospel to the Marxist class struggle narrative. Christ is turned into the redeemer of the oppressed. He is against the oppressive establishment. BLM’s co-founder Patrisse Cullors turns to old pagan rituals, to ancestors and spirits for help in the struggle.
BLM’s idea of struggle also targets the traditional and hierarchical Church. It sees religion as a tool of white oppression. Militants and sympathizers call for the overthrow of “white” Jesus representations, saints, and stained glass. All things that traditionally represent God and His moral law must go.
With such radical goals, it is hard to imagine why the public sympathize with the movement. More perplexing is the support of the “racist” establishment. BLM unequivocally wants to destroy the “racist” establishment. Yet, sports figures, tech CEOs and clergymen are tripping compete to see who can out woke the other. Who can coddle the BLM cause the most? Institutional self flagellation abounds. BLM is Marxist.