Marxism is back in style.
A Norwegian parliamentarian, Petter Eide, has nominated Black Lives Matter for a Nobel Peace Prize. The far-left politician, a member of the Socialist Left Party, said the nomination was in recognition of the group’s impact on raising awareness of racism worldwide. Marxists of the world, unite! Let’s review – Black Lives Matter began in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case. According to its website, “Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.” There were sporadic marches and protests from its founding until May 2020 when the death of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis, Minnesota set off the Summer of Love, as the Mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, dubbed it. Weekly protests and riots took place for months led by Black Live Matter. The summer months in particular were the worst months of violence and destruction in a generation. Some cities are still plagued with violent rioting in the name of social justice and civil rights. Three black women, self-described Marxists, or as Patrisse Cullors said in 2015, “trained Marxists” founded Black Lives Matter. The co-founder was trained in Marxist-Leninist ideology by her mentor, Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization. “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.
