For some time now right wing Talk Radio has been attributing the violence connected with " Black Lives Matter " -as a political movement - to " Marxist " ideology. Any politically literate socialist - inspired by Marxist scholarship - knows this is bunk. The Marxist theory of history ( whatever its philosophical flaws ) teaches that CLASS STRUGGLE has been the driving force of social change for many centuries now. Racism has been seen as a tool of capitalism ( " divide and conquer " ) and imperialism and colonialism. Read Leon Trotsky's( Trotsky was from a Jewish background ) essay " 90 years of the Communist Manifesto ".
Karl Marx also found support for historical materialism in Charles Darwin's GREAT IDEA of the origin of the species. The HUMAN race is definitely one. There can be no scientific support whatever for " white supremacy " or Nazi ideology , certainly not crackpot nationalism.
Both black leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X made a connection between racism and capitalism , between racism and imperialism. My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker ".
Clearly from an orthodox Marxist point of view police brutality is, in fact , institutionalized since the THE STATE in all capitalist countries is THE STATE of the ruling class. The American TWO PARTY SYSTEM is just the right and left profile of the American plutocracy.
Millions of black voters deceive themselves in thinking that Democrat Joe Biden is a savior of the black working class.
What you won't get from the mainstream news media is a coherent, RATIONAL, scientific explanation of the evil of racism in the modern world.
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