CCFCJosh75 wrote:1) Wrong. Similar yes, but they are different and shouldn't be lumped together.
Communism is the final stage of Marx's Theory of Evolution of Society. Being preceded by Socialism that he perceived to be the natural outgrowth of Capitalism.
As a brief aside, communism has never and can never be achieved on masse beyond small anarchic communes as it requires the dissolution of the authoritarian 'dictatorship of the proletariat'. Any society of size requires hierarchy and would cease to function in the absence of some form of leadership structure.
Anyway back to the point at hand, it is not 'lumping them together', communism is at its very definition, the final outcome of Marxist theory.
Nice concise summary of Marx's stages of societal evolution here
http://learneconomicsonline.com/marxist.phpCCFCJosh75 wrote:2) Irrelevant due to question 1s answer although I would love to see your figures on that. (Including capitalism as well if you could)
Seeing as we've established it is not irrelevant perhaps you should now answer this?
In answer to your question:
Conservative figures on death rate of the implementation of marxist theories in the 20th century would be 100 million. Wall St Journal did a nice summary here
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.co ... 1510011810Capitalism on the other hand, is merley an economic system based on individual private property rights, which intrinsically requires a ban on the initiation of violent force.
Unlike Marxism it is not a broader ideology but an economic system. It is impossible to allocate deaths to an economic system.
There are political ideologies (such as imperialism) under which capitalism sits as the primary exonomic system of an ideology, that you could of course attribute deaths to, but you cannot attribute deaths directly to capitalism itself.
If you do not understand that nuance you simply do not understand what capitalism is.
This is a new site that is of a splinter group not affiliated to the US group which it actually explicitly states on the site. Given you're looking i thought you might have picked that up.
Black Lives Matter official site
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/Interestingly, the text has been sanitized to a degree on the official BLM site and no longer includes the reference to overthrowing an oppressive capitalist regime.
It does however still include the phrase "We disrupt western-prescribed nuclear family structure" which is definitely veering into Marxism as Marx wanted to destroy the nuclear family and replace that with the state.
However, likely as a reaction to the massive backlash BLM has received in the discovery of its Marxist roots it is as i said been cleansed of overt Marxist rehtoric.
So in absence of that lets just go by what the Black lives matter founder says.
"We actually do have an ideological frame we are trained marxists we are super versed on ideological theories."
https://youtu.be/p7C6tNjiRKYCCFCJosh75 wrote:4) Again, question 3 has nullified this answer.
Not really.
BLM have aligned the taking of the knee to their cause capitalising on the widespread coverage Colin Kapernick brought to the gesture shamelessly borrowed from the peaceful protests of MLK Jr and then the act of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyds neck which was attributed initially to his death was woven into the narrative for mass kneeling at protrsts.
In a nod to their marxist roots and belief in political violence they also incorporated the raised fist of the Blank Panthers (an unashamedly black supremecist organisation again founded by Marxists) into their gesture.
The kneel with the raised fist bump is threfore now a unique symbol of BLM.