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It's just not helpful to call broad swathes of people "Marxist" to mean something other than specifically Communist in a fashion favored by Marx. Similarly, fo
by humanrebar 6y ago
It's just not helpful to call broad swathes of people "Marxist" to mean something other than specifically Communist in a fashion favored by Marx.
Similarly, folks these days call anything they don't like involving wealthy people "capitalism". It just confuses and escalates.
I think there's a good point about teleological approaches to politics and history that are increasingly popular. Marxism is a well known category of that. They tend to create unforgiving worldviews and attitudes. Admittedly words like teleological don't have the same rhetorical punch.
- akvadrako 6y agoSome of the founders of BLM call themselves Marxist. They partner with pro-communist Chinese groups. And the organisation's platform has a Marxist history. The Black Panthers published a 10-point plan in 1966 which promoted a new form of racial Marxism, which was largely adopted by BLM and was posted as part of their syllabus on their website. They quietly toned it down a few months ago so it's not quite so obvious now.
- dls2016 6y agoSo?
- akvadrako 6y agoSo there isn't anything incorrect about calling them Marxist.
- pseudalopex 6y agoBLM is a movement. Not an organization. The organization that owns blacklivesmatter.com is called BLM Global Network Foundation. Few people in the BLM movement pay any attention to the BLMGNF organization.