"The Challenge of Marxism"

[IanM]

The Challenge of Marxism

 

[Buzzard3]

Marxism has only two enemies - reality and sanity.

 

[BlueKumul]

Marxism and liberalism are two sides of the same coin. Both focus on egoism, in a descriptive sense (egoism is the main drive of human activity) as well as prescriptive (we should be egoists). The difference is that liberalism focuses on personal egoism and Marxism on class egoism.

But is BLM Marxism? Or plain old tribalism?

 

[Malka]

The BLM founders (Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi) are admitted Marxists. During a 2015 interview on the Real News Network, Cullors stated they were “trained Marxists.” Tometi posed in a picture with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

Frederich Engels claimed that the monogamous nuclear family was created through Capitalism and thus we must return to an ancient tribal society because they were in his mind classless and practiced a form of “primitive Communism.” This particular ideology is reflected on BLM’s website. They wish to dismantle the nuclear family.

An organization known as Thousand Currents handles BLM’s fundraising. The Vice Chair of the board, Susan Rosenberg, spent 16 years in prison for the “possession of explosives and firearms.” She was part of the Marxist terror group known as the May 19th Communist Organization.

 

[Buzzard3]

Marxism and liberalism are two sides of the same coin. Both focus on egoism, in a descriptive sense (egoism is the main drive of human activity) as well as prescriptive (we should be egoists). The difference is that liberalism focuses on personal egoism and Marxism on class egoism.

… which in turn comes from atheism and the so-called Enlightenment.

But is BLM Marxism? Or plain old tribalism?

Definitely instigated and perpetuated by Marxism, with some tribalism thrown in.

 

[StudentMI]

If you’d like to see the implementation of Engels’ ideas on the family check out the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

 

[ralfyman]

In many ways, we are also looking at the challenge of global capitalism, especially given soaring debt, ecological damage on a significant scale coupled with the effects of global warming, and the threat of a resource crunch being driven by diminishing returns.