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Tell the Marxists Black Lives Matter
The Houston Courant ^ | July 31, 2020 | B. Vasoli

Posted on 07/31/2020 5:22:13 AM PDT by The Houston Courant

Not long after the push to remove Confederate statues from public spaces was revived this summer, social-justice warriors now seek finer prey. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Christopher Columbus aren’t safe, nor even are Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. Grant.

The campaign against such men forces a reckoning: Can we celebrate past exemplars, despite their moral failings? U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-2) argued persuasively last month in National Review Online that we must, and that failing to do so will sap our civilizational strength. “The touchy sympathies of ‘political correctness’ were always just a base from which to launch a cultural revolution, a purge of traditional American narratives and icons,” Crenshaw wrote.

Today’s leftists, of course, exalt icons of their own, Karl Marx among them. Communism’s intellectual leadoff is enjoying a comeback, manifested most notably in Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors’s 2015 self-description as a “trained Marxist.” Lest Cullors be thought unique, behold: Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson, in his messy apologia Why You Should Be a Socialist, gushes, “Marx has a way of showing things as they really are, of getting to the heart of the matter using powerful and original language…. Throughout Marx’s writing one finds staggeringly original descriptions of everyday phenomena that cause us to examine them anew.” Jacobin magazine praised Robinson’s book generally, but criticized its treatment of Marx—as too disapproving. We Americans haven’t (yet) erected any major statues of the Prussian quasi-scholar, but a half dozen exist in Europe; one went up just two years ago in Marx’s birthplace of Trier, with European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker keynoting the unveiling, no less. The Marxist appellation hasn’t compromised the careers of the English literary scholar Terry Eagleton or the American sociologist John Bellamy Foster. (Indeed, where would they be without it?)

In other words, devotees of political correctness who would scrub our pathfinders from the landscape willfully ignore their own political forbear’s beastly racism toward blacks and grim legacy for Africans.

All but total know-nothings recognize the ruination Marx’s adherents wrought during the last century in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America, but their impingements on Africa also warrant infamy. Communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam conducted a genocide in the 1970s and ‘80s that killed half a million Ethiopians, including many students and intellectuals; all the while, famine killed nearly as many of their countrymen. Overthrown in 1991, Mengistu was granted asylum by fellow Marxist despot Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe where the orchestrator of Ethiopia’s “Red Terror” still lives.

Communism similarly devastated Angloa and Mozambique, vestiges of Portuguese imperialism where anti-colonial sentiment ran understandably high. (Afrocommunism is yet another instance of racist whites exporting an oppressive ideology into nonwhite nations.) Flooded by Soviet and Cuban political advisors, the Angolans would see their country engulfed in civil war between the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the quasi-Maoist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Mozambique meanwhile fell under the radicalized Mozambique National Liberation Front; under this party’s governance, food shortages alone are believed by UNICEF to have caused 600,000 deaths.

Contemporary Marxists, who hew to a “no true Scotsman” refrain about real-life communist tyrannies, won’t ascribe blame for this to Marx himself, and they certainly don’t judge their lion a bigot, but his own racial animus is a matter of record. In letters to his writing partner Friedrich Engels, Marx called his admiring Cuban son-in-law Paul Lafargue a “(n-word expletive)” and the social democrat Prussian Ferdinand Lassalle a “Jewish (n-word expletive).” This was the man Robinson lauded for elucidating “things as they really are, of getting to the heart of the matter using powerful and original language.”

Careers are being shattered today for far views far more benign than Marx’s racism, and still he is venerated by tomfools near and far. They should make their “cancel culture” useful and turn it on their hero.


TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blogpimp; communism; marxism; texas

1 posted on 07/31/2020 5:22:13 AM PDT by The Houston Courant
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To: The Houston Courant

I’m sure Lenin, Stalin and Mao are safe.


2 posted on 07/31/2020 5:30:24 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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To: depressed in 06

Lenin still stands in Seattle.


3 posted on 07/31/2020 5:38:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

cannot access Millie Weaver’s own video on this, so posting what is a relatively sober interview from Alex Jones show. vitally important everyone sees this. I have been trying to show connections between the BLM/Antifa riots and The Sunrise Movement. Millie has the story. her Skype cuts out briefly a couple of times:

VIDEO: 1h31m in to 2h12m: 30 Jul: Millie Weaver on undercover in Sunrise Movement/100 Day Siege plan - to hit homes of Republicans etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCNyMVVamHM

hope someone can access Millie’s own video and post it.


4 posted on 07/31/2020 5:48:10 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: The Houston Courant

The Marxists know that BLM is an acronym for Burn, Loot and Murder.


5 posted on 07/31/2020 6:18:02 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: The Houston Courant

This article is a good history of how BLACKS suffer death & destruction BY Marxists


6 posted on 07/31/2020 7:29:04 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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