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RE: The Statist Root Causes of Black Lives Matter

in #anarchism8 years ago

Nice post.

I do want to point out that you (and a lot of other people, to be fair) talk about Black Lives Matter as if it was an organization with a specific platform and formal leaders. Really, it's not an organization at all, it's a social movement. It's an ad hoc phenomenon that draws from a wide range of people with varying ideologies and intents. Saying "BLM is teaming up with Hillary Clinton" is sort of misrepresenting the situation.

The people I know who are involved in BLM (and I myself have been a part of some demonstrations) tend to be anarchists and socialists, and I find little to no love for Clinton among them. They are all very aware of her history and have a strong intersectional analysis of white supremacy and its role in sustaining capitalism.

Politicians are always going to try to co-opt social movements. There is almost always somebody in the crowd that you can find to support the establishment. So even if they want to find some token participants in the movement and make a big show of it, be very skeptical and don't assume that is an accurate depiction of what's really going on.

This is something that happens all the time, so I'm not just talking about you here... it comes up again and again, and it's rarely questioned.

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Thanks for the clarifications!

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