Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, described herself and co-founder Alicia Garza as “trained Marxists.” The organization’s third co-founder, Opal Tometi, has been circumspect in her self-definition, though one may deduce Marxist sympathies from the several photographs of her smiling next to Venezuela’s Communist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Cullors, Garza, and Tometi share [U.S. Senator Bernie] Sanders’s basic Marxist framework. But they didn’t name their organization “Workers’ Lives Matter” or “Proletarian Lives Matter.” While Bernie focuses on wealth to fight a class war, BLM highlights race to wage a culture war.
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 25