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Kerrylee's avatar

It is ironic that BLM, which has as its founding core the destruction of white culture, comes from the theories of dead old pasty German men (Frankfurt School), with the Italian Gramsci thrown in the mix. For those who don’t know, when Marxism 1.0 didn’t arrive because the harsh economic conditions of industrialisation sorted themselves out, they pivoted to culture. It was the culture that needed to be overturned. This is why it is so bourgeois, with it taking hold in universities but not in factories. I was listening to a sister (nun) who said that Joseph, Mary and Jesus exemplified the perfect family and one should pray for all families to use them as a model. Listening to this, it hit me why Marxists want to destroy the family. If the nuclear family is deemed the foundation, you destroy that foundation by destroying it. A nuclear family is an unearned privilege. And you need to destroy the concept of women, because women are the foundation of the family. If there is no unique divinity for women, then mere words create the social construction. Ironically, as Luxury Beliefs author Rob Henderson writes, the bourgeoisie strive for intact families as they instinctively know it is the best way for wealth and stability. They seemingly outsource their guilt to others - sort of like outsourcing housekeeping, gardening, etc.

Joanie Higgs's avatar

Entirely and utterly true.

During "covid" a friend and I lampooned both BLM and the fake pandemic with "BSM" which stood for Black Sheep Matter. We were constantly thinking of ways to resist what felt exactly like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers (all the Karens shrieking about masks etc).

Jake Wiskerchen's avatar

This is perfectly written. Great job.

Skiamakhos's avatar

How about the Black Panther Party?

Jake Wiskerchen's avatar

Did you read the column?

Skiamakhos's avatar

Yeah, didn't make an awful lot of sense. Apparently BLM are baaad m'kay because they don't stick to black advocacy alone but have a wider remit around working class struggle and working against fascist imperialist militarism killing people. Are we saying that BLM are bad and wrong because they speak out against the killing of white lesbian women as well as black straight men by law enforcement, but they would have been ok if they'd stuck to the likes of George Floyd? Are we objecting to BLM because they don't want law enforcement to be killers? Is it communist to want fewer killings by police? To be fair, the far right often invoke helicopters when talking to the left, as if referring to Argentine and Chilean death flights dumping bodies of tortured socialists in the sea is somehow the moral high ground or supposed to make people fear them, but they do seem proud of their LEOs and secret police disappearing and killing thousands. But I wasn't aware that Denmark with zero deaths at police hands or the UK with 3 in one year had had their revolutions yet.

Always gets me chuckling when the right confuse political activism like "Please don't kill us" (could that be paraphrased as "Don't tread on me" I wonder?) with communism, and reform with revolution. You just show yourselves up.

Jake Wiskerchen's avatar

Sorry, I got lost in the strawmen, ad hominem, overgeneralizations, deflections, and red herrings, so I'm not sure what you're saying here. You started out asking about Black Panthers as if you read only the title, so I asked if you'd actually read the piece itself, and I'm still unsure that you did. Have a good afternoon.