![]() And I think what we really try to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many Black folks." We are superversed on, sort of, ideological theories. Myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers we are trained Marxists. Swain, though, was referring to a newly surfaced interview Cullors did in 2015, where she said: ![]() Their primary backgrounds are as community organizers, artists and writers. Swain alluded to Black Lives Matter’s three co-founders, who are still featured prominently on the group’s website - Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. She said, "Now, the founders of Black Lives Matter, they’ve come out as Marxists." ![]() In a Facebook post labeling Black Lives Matter as a Marxist movement, PragerU included a video interview with Carol Swain, a Black conservative and former professor at Vanderbilt and Princeton universities. But that does not make those socialist movements, it makes them mass movements," she said. "There are definitely socialists within the movement, as there have been in every single social movement in 20th century American history and today. "Regardless of whatever the professed politics of people may be who are prominent in the movement, they don’t represent its breadth," said Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University African American Studies professor and author of "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation." Many Americans, few of whom would identify as Marxists, support Black Lives Matter, drawn to its message of anti-racism. In a recently surfaced 2015 interview, one of the three Black Lives Matter co-founders declared that she and another co-founder "are trained Marxists."īut the movement has grown and broadened dramatically. These days, Marxism usually means analyzing social change through an economic lens, with the assumption that the rich and the poor should become more equal. "Marxism envisioned the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat (working class people) and eventually a classless communist society," Encyclopedia Britannica and Oxford Reference say. The attack has been made in recent weeks by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Ben Carson, Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development conservative talk show host Mark Levin and PragerU, which has more than 4 million Facebook followers.Īren’t sure what Marxism is, actually? It was developed by 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx and is the basis for the theory of communism and socialism. Backlash against Black Lives Matter includes branding it as Marxist.
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