The matter of Marxism: Black Lives

Matter is rooted in a soulless

ideology

FILE - In this June 12, 2020, file photo, Promise Goodwine, of Tampa, Fla., protests on a part of 16th Street renamed Black
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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - - Monday, June 29, 2020

ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have taken to gathering in the
streets to protest racial injustice. They comprise a rainbow of color —
black, white and every hue in between. The nebulous organization
behind it all, Black Lives Matter, has succeeded in bringing U.S. citizens
together in common cause like never before in modern times. What’s not
to like? Its Marxist roots, that’s what.

The legions of protesters and rioters filling TV screens don’t much care
about the underpinnings of the campaign for justice, so-called, but they
should. The organizers of Black Lives Matter (BLM) clearly care, and it is
the philosophy that animates the movement and is steering it toward a
dangerous place most Americans would flee if they understood what
awaits them.

In comments uncovered and reprinted in The National Pulse, Black Lives

Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors reveals that she and fellow co-
founder Alicia Garza are followers of an ideology that could not be more
foreign to the American way: “We actually do have an ideological frame.
Myself and Alicia in particular, we’re trained organizers. We are trained
Marxists. We are super-versed on ideological theories.”

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Ms. Cullors is unapologetic in describing Black Lives Matter founders as
“trained Marxists,” so it’s worth examining the words that inspire their
deeds. Marxism, the 19th-century worldview systematized by German
revolutionary Karl Marx, is fundamentally atheistic. It subscribes to a
theory that matter — physical stuff — comprises the fundamental reality
of human existence. The transcendent experiences of the human heart
are regarded as nothing more than biochemistry — fantasies of brain
function. Stuff, whether molecule or man, is just soulless stuff. In short,
matter doesn’t really matter.

Clearly, Marxism stands in diametric opposition to the Judeo-Christian

foundation of America, which views each person as infused with a spirit
unbounded by time and space, a manifestation of an omnipotent
Creator. Human lives matter — all of them — a belief undergirding the
American founding in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Philosophy, of course, is simply a mental exercise, except for students

who must lug around thick tomes of deep thoughts. It is the application
of ideology in real time where the concept meets the concrete or, as in
recent practice, where brick collides with window. The engine of
“progress” in the Marxist worldview is the dialectic — or conflict — which
is the clash of ideas and people. Marxists hope that when the smoke
clears following their riots, something new and better is formed.
Americans watching the Black Lives Matter demonstrations on TV have
been witnessing the handiwork of “trained Marxists” practicing the
dialectic. The hair-trigger harpies screaming obscenities in the faces of
police officers attempting to keep the peace, the masked bullies yanking
down statues of historical figures, the hooded guerrillas hurling Molotov
cocktails — all are putting Marxist ideology into action.

Students of history have seen it all before. The Marxist revolutions of the
20th century that wracked Russia, China, Vietnam, North Korea and
elsewhere piled up victims approaching 100 million. Thus is the bitter
harvest of the perpetually angry, steeped in Marxism and deaf to the call
for human kindness.

It is easy to stir up an argument

over whether the NFL’s Tom
Brady chose wisely in becoming a
Buccaneer rather than remain a
Patriot, but there is no
counterargument to the
proposition that black lives
matter. As they wholeheartedly
endorse the intrinsic value of the black race, though, Americans are
tiptoeing around the controversy posed by an organization that shrewdly
shields itself from scrutiny behind the BLM brand.

A recent Pew Research Center survey of adults found that 67 percent

expressed support for the movement rooted in philosophical
materialism, despite its use of fear and violence to achieve its aims. A
separate Pew Research Center poll conducted in 2019 found that a
nearly identical proportion of Americans — 65 percent — described
themselves as Christians, presumably embracing a countervailing call to
“love thy neighbor as thyself.”

Marxism is a soulless ideology incompatible with the Judeo-Christian

foundations of this nation. Americans wishing to advance the Founders’
struggle “to form a more perfect union” should forswear the clenched
fists of Black Lives Matter and wield the affirmative force of forgiveness.

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frisbee_ten
29 June, 2020

Absolutely spot on article. There are good Christian people I know who naively thing BLM is
about fixing the police. Has nothing to do with the police and everything to do with cultural
Marxism. I have done my homework over the last number of years. Most Americans have not.
Until we do, we will not stop the cancer that threatens to undo about 250 years of sacrifices
and freedom, and the greatness of America. I have been to every continent other than
Australia (and Antarctica where no one lives)--about 45 countries--and there is no place near
as perfect as our country when it comes to standard of living and equality. Thank you
Washington TImes for helping get the word out!

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bluhorizons frisbee_ten
29 June, 2020

Black Lives Matter is a cult not a majority: According to Pew, only about 6% of U.S. adults
have participated in a rally or protest in the past month, and they skew young, urban,
and Democratic.

They claim white America is racist and the police are the enforcers, but the facts do not
support this. Most of the killing of the 7,500 murdered blacks in America is done by
other blacks, who are responsible for the great majority of gun-related crimes.

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Spec Ops Lawyer

30 June, 2020

Marxism and Marxists are not just speaking “soulless stuff” they are soul suckers. They suck
out your soul, the core of your being by whatever name you give it, and leaving in its place a
cold and desolate shell of a human being. Beware of them; they mean to harm you.

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