BLM’s Founders have Specifically Claimed to be “Trained Marxists”

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I have sounded the alarm about the “trained Marxists” running BLM here, and here. But if you still don’t believe it, Bradley Thomas explains BLM’s Marxist agenda at LewRockwell.com. He writes (abridged):

One of the most oft cited and criticized goals of the Black Lives Matter organization is its stated desire to abolish the family as we know it. Specifically, BLM’s official website states:

We 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.

This idea isn’t unique to BLM, of course. “Disrupting” the “nuclear family” is a commonly stated goal among Marxist organizations. Given that BLM’s founders have specifically claimed to be “trained Marxists,” we should not be surprised that the organization’s leadership has embraced a Marxian view of the family.

But where does this hostility toward the family originate? Partly, it comes from the theories of Marx and Engels themselves, and their views that an earlier, matriarchal version of the family rejected private property as an organizing principle of society. It was only later that this older tribal model of the family gave way to the modern “patriarchal” family, which promotes and sustains private property.

Clearly, in the Marxian view, this “new” type of family must be opposed, since the destruction of this family model will make it easier to abolish private property as well.

The overthrow of this patriarchic dominance can only come, according to Engels, by abolishing private property in the means of production—which he and those steeped in Marxist ideology blame for the patriarchy.

“The impending [communist] revolution will reduce this whole care of inheritance to a minimum by changing at least the overwhelming part of permanent and inheritable wealth – the means of production – into social property,” he concluded.

Bradley Thomas is creator of the website Erasethestate.com and is a libertarian activist and writer with nearly fifteen years’ experience researching and writing on political philosophy and economics.

Read more from Thomas here.

Learn more about BLM and the Marxist agenda to transform America from Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul.