by Dr. Martin Scott Catino
Many Americans are well aware of the fact that Black Lives Matter (including its official entity Black Lives Matter Global Network) is a communist terrorist organization masquerading as a civil rights movement advocating for African Americans and their fight against racism, discrimination, and inequality. BLM and Antifa are primarily responsible for the mass violence occurring in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. These violent activities include over 2000 injuries of law enforcement officers; the worst property damage in American history (estimated at over one billion dollars); threats, provocations, and intimidations at many local “peaceful protests” (evident in slogans such as ACAB [All Cops are B*****ds] and “Pigs in a blanket, fry’m like bacon”); and the gutting of public safety funds, authority, and operability leading to major spikes in murder and violent crime throughout American cities.
Yet, the most dangerous aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement are well hidden by the organization and portend far more destructive activities. Rather than merely a terrorist organization using violence and political pressure to create change, the objective of BLM is to overthrow the government of the United States, as well as the political and social structures essential for a free, secure, and prosperous Constitutional Republic. Thus BLM is much more than a violent protest movement; it is an insurgent group that requires deeper public scrutiny. What BLM is hiding is critical for understanding its nature as well as its next steps.
BLM’s danger to public security is rooted in its growing capacity — and willingness to use its capabilities effectively. These capabilities include massive financial resources; cultural support in music, sports, entertainment, and churches; political penetration of federal, state, and local government in addition to the official support of the Democratic Party; a supportive mainstream media; and a public education system promoting BLM through the “anti-racist agenda” of Ibram X. Kendi and The 1619 Project. These formidable capabilities, too often ignored by U.S. domestic security agencies, make this reincarnation of the Black Panther Party movement and Black Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s respectively the most significant threat to the homeland.
Insurgent Agenda
BLM hides its insurgent agenda behind slogans of civil rights, international human rights, racial justice, and grievances over allegedly unjust police killings of high-profile names such as Trayvon Martin (2012), Michael Brown (2014), Freddie Gray (2015), Breonna Taylor (2020), and George Floyd (2020). Its website highlights its advocacy for radical homosexuals, illegal aliens, militant feminists, and individuals with criminal records, seeking to “center” these groups into an insurgent force capable of overthrowing the government.
BLM’s direct statements about its revolutionary objectives lurk beneath the deluge of propaganda by its organization, the media, woke corporations, and a fawning public. While BLM statements on violence against the police, property, the judicial system (courthouses and prisons), historical symbols, and even entire cities have been publicized, the direct statements by BLM to destroy the entire American way of life have yet to be given the exposure and seriousness they deserve.
There is no doubt BLM has been organizing a national uprising and not merely protests. In May 2015, Patrisse Cullors, one of the three co-founders of BLM, sought to shape the narrative of the death of Freddie Gray (who died in police custody) into a “Black Spring,” a mass movement leading to the overthrow of the U.S. government. She asserted that the death of Gray was no mere incident, but part of an invasion of the Black community by law enforcement, a problem allegedly compounded by systemic racism leading to poverty, homelessness, and joblessness. Inspired by the Arab Spring protests of 2011 that led to the toppling of the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and major unrest in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and other locations, Cullors declared the protests after Gray’s death “a national uprising.” This self-professed “Abolitionist” again demonstrated the creation of false narratives, agitation of unrest, directing mass movements to clear targets and objectives, and the ultimate aim of overthrowing the state and not merely bringing reform.
BLM leader Cullors also asserted other direct statements to her followers to destroy the entire U.S. system. “At a 2015 Netroots Nation conference, Cullors led chants shouting, ‘If I die in police custody, burn everything down … rise the f**k up! That is the only way m*****f**kers like you will listen!’” notes James Simpson in his article “Black Lives Matter” at capitalresearch.org. Even when BLM makes general references to wanting to change “systems” (“systemic racism,” “systemic injustice,” etc.), these comments should be interpreted as Marxist objectives of total opposition to our cherished, constitutionally-protected freedoms.
BLM statements promoting violence against or opposition to the Constitution and free-market system should be taken as a serious threat from a well-organized, capable, insurgent group and not one by a “spontaneous protest movement,” as it claims. “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk,” Cullors asserted during a 2015 interview. This rare, candid confession by Cullors shocked many when it resurfaced in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in 2020. But the same public has not given this statement (and its implications) the deeper reflection it deserves.
Cullors’ rare admission of BLM leadership being “trained Marxists,” “super-versed” on its ideology, implicates her and the movement for their subversive, violent, and insurgent nature and objectives. The reader should understand that Karl Marx was no mere reformer, critic, or malcontent, but the father of a movement known as communism responsible for over one hundred million deaths worldwide as it pursued the violent end to each nation and the creation of a totalitarian system benefiting only its chosen supporters.
More importantly, BLM’s ideological and organizational father promoted conspiracy (hiding one’s beliefs until opportune moments), violence as an essential means, terrorism, and the complete destruction of the Western social system, including the family, religion, culture, and education (Marxists particularly hate home schooling). Marx asserted in the conclusion of The Communist Manifesto: “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
Not surprisingly, Black Lives Matter vehemently attacks the traditional family structure and seeks to not only “disrupt it” but also dismantle it so children can be raised by “extended families and villages” in a system of “collective care.” Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot all used collective care to brainwash generations of youth to blindly follow the state and in many cases betray and directly harm their very own families. In September 2021, BLM quietly removed its statement on disrupting and replacing the nuclear family, an act further demonstrating it is hiding the more violent and unpopular aspects of its agenda while subversively working to achieve it. The statement on the family, although hiding in the dark and cloaked world of BLM activities, can still be found on a Way Back Machine search of the Internet Archive: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”
Yet, the mainstream media has done an extraordinary job of covering for Black Lives Matter and its hidden agenda. For example, in his Foundation for Economic Education article “Is Black Lives Matter Marxist? No and Yes” (fee.org), Brad Polumbo wrote:
I can personally guarantee you that the vast majority of these people, while liberal, do not support ending capitalism or dismantling the family. Conservatives are led astray as soon as they apply their (valid) criticisms of Black Lives Matter™️ the organization to the Black Lives Matter movement and its supporters broadly.
Palumbo, like other media figures, is ignorant of the fact Marxist insurgent groups, as well as others, intentionally develop a mass base and front groups of dupes, innocent supporters, and misled idealists in order to cover the core objectives and create increased political and social power. Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and many other Marxists used this very approach. The technique is addressed as doctrine by US Field Manual (FM) 3-24.2, as well as by many security practitioners who address Communist deception strategies (see J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit, 1958).
Amid the propaganda messages flooding the public information streams, BLM’s Marxist-insurgent structure is still visible. Names such as Eric Mann, Susan Rosenberg, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur emerge as associates, supporters, advisers, trainers, and icons. These individuals not only are insurgents and terrorists, but also comprise a Who’s Who of 1960s and 1970s (and beyond) radical violence. Not merely window dressing, the names listed here involve the ideological founders and trainers (Mann), advisor (Davis), financial advisor (Rosenberg), and icon (Assata Shakur) of street violence. Old guard meets new guard as the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), one of the four largest radical socialist organizations in the United States, creates a comfortable umbrella organization which allows all three founders of BLM to work in FRSO’s front groups. Claiming BLM has communist insurgent roots is an understatement. BLM is a Marxist cyborg with a thin layer of flesh creating a sketchy human appearance.
What’s Next?
So what is next? Marxist revolutionaries have long sought to overthrow the state and its social systems in order to impose a grim vision of utopia, a living nightmare for those who unfortunately have to live through it. What occurred in Seattle, Washington’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in the summer of 2020 is a foreshadow of the world these extremists want to create. It is a world where murder, assault, rape, theft, intimidation, burglary, vandalism, economic chaos, lawlessness, and fear reign while competing thug-leaders struggle for power and control over roving armed militias.
Concerned citizens should understand Black Lives Matter is much more than a terrorist organization. It is a communist insurgency seeking to follow Marxist doctrine of not only replacing the U.S. government, but also completely destroying our fundamental liberties and cherished traditions, which these political actors contemptibly call oppressive “systems.” Responsible Americans should uphold security laws; bolster police authority and presence; create public awareness; purge schools, universities, and churches of BLM propaganda; and understand the values at stake in this contest determining whether “that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”