A recently revealed video from 2010 shows BLM co-founder Carlos as a fan of the world’s most murderous dictator, Mao Zedong. (Screenshot from the video)
Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors is known to be a self-confessed “trained Marxist. However, a recently revealed video from 10 years ago shows that she is also a fan of the world’s most murderous dictator, Mao Zedong.
According to Fox News, around 2010, Carlos attended a gathering of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, a communist think tank in Los Angeles, where she gave a speech about a book written by the leftist think tank’s founder, Eric Mann. In her speech, she said that the leftist think tank’s founder, Eric Mann, had written a book that could be compared to “The Quotations of Chairman Mao.
In her speech, Carlos said, “I was talking to a young man in Arizona who was fighting the SB1017 law, and he picked up one of [Mann’s] books and said it was like Mao’s Red Book. I was like, ‘Man, that’s what I thought!’ It was so cool that he correlated the two books.”
She suggested organizing book clubs and buying 10 to 15 of Mann’s books for youth to read, “I think I play a very important role in the dialogue with youth. Maybe because I’ve been in the movement for 17 and a half years, I know the ropes of organizing young people.”
Carlos is one of the three founders of BLM, and she was recently revealed to have four properties and a mansion in a white Los Angeles neighborhood, and has been described by Chinese netizens as the “American version of Sima Nan” (Sima Nan once said: anti-American is work, going to America is life).
It is not surprising that Carlos is in love with the Mao devil. However, once the video clip came out, it attracted many Westerners to retweet it on social media, with the core focus on Mao and the Mao Quotes. Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, included a graphic, “Which dictator killed the most people?” If one drop of blood represents the killing of a million people, then Hitler had 17 drops of blood under his head, Stalin had 22 drops of blood under his head, and Mao had 76 drops of blood.
According to Wikipedia, Mao’s Quotations was edited and published by the PLA newspaper in 1964 and was a cornerstone of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. During the Cultural Revolution alone China International Bookstore has published more than 500 editions in more than fifty languages to 117 countries and regions around the world, with a total print run of five billion copies. At that time, with a world population of over 3 billion, the average number of copies per person worldwide was 1.67. So much so that it was called “the most popular book in the world in the twentieth century”. According to some organizations, Mao’s Quotations is second only to the Bible in global history in terms of print run.
The Origin of the Black Movement and Mao’s Thought
One of Mao’s goals in launching the Cultural Revolution was to export revolution to the world and start a world revolution. The Black Panther Party, a militant black community in the United States, was a follower of Mao. In a 2016 article in the New York Times, “A Hundred Panthers in Bloom: Why the U.S. Black Panther Party Loves Chairman Mao,” Huey P. Newton, who founded the Black Panther Party in 1966, describes how he idolized Mao, saying that in Harlem, a black community in New York at the time, the Little Red Book …… seemed to be a handful, “the controversial militant group had thousands of followers in its heyday. Some were killed in gun battles with police. Some died in factional fights and internal killings. Some died in prison.”
The mainland Baidu encyclopedia entry on the “Black Panther Party” describes that some members of the Black Panther Party in California at the time drove from Chinese bookstores in San Francisco to buy bundles of Mao’s “Little Red Book” for 20 cents each. Then they went to the University of California campus and sold them for a dollar each to make money and then buy guns. “Thirty years later, the man who came up with the idea said on television that Chairman Mao taught us that power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Black Panther Party is a model for living and learning.”
According to the article “Mao Zedong Thought Guided Black Americans to Revolution” in 2015 by Tencent Culture on the mainland, Chairman Mao’s quotations became required reading for the Black Panther Party. After 1959, several leaders of the Black Panther Party, including W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), went to China to “worship” Mao. pilgrimages” to Mao.
The influence of Mao’s thought on the American left
The young foreigners who read Mao’s quotations as the Bible were not only black people. If the black radicals, led by the Black Panthers, followed Mao’s line of violent revolution, the white New Left in the United States at that time followed the line of cultural revolution, also inspired by China’s Cultural Revolution.
In response to “U.S. Research on China’s ‘Cultural Revolution’,” Dynasty Hui of the Chinese Communist Studies Service Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong writes, “That said People may not believe that the spiritual leaders of the Cultural Revolution in the United States (and in the West in general) were known as the Three M’s – Marx, Marcuse and Mao Zedong. Although there were fundamental differences in the nature of the two cultural revolutions in the two countries that took place almost simultaneously across the ocean, Americans, who were almost completely ignorant of the Chinese situation at the time, actively engaged in the study of this Mao-initiated ‘Cultural Revolution’ in China, to some extent out of their own realistic associations. “
In his article “The Specter of the Cultural Revolution in Contemporary Leftist Cultural Theory,” Guo Jian, a professor of language and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, says that Louis Althusser, a leading theorist of “neo-Marxism” in the West, has used the term “cultural revolution” to describe the cultural revolution. Louis Althusser, a leading theorist of Western “neo-Marxism” (neo-Marxism), takes cultural criticism as his mission and accepts Mao’s cultural determinism in its entirety. He argued that Stalin “ignored the class struggle and failed to continue the revolution in the cultural sphere, which ultimately led to the resurgence of capitalism in the Soviet Union.”
Fredric Jameson, a “neo-Marxist” cultural theorist a decade after Althusser, argues that “among the anti-establishment, anti-culture, and anti-war movements in the West, China’s Cultural Revolution also provided the Western leftist forces with ‘a model of political culture’ because it was not only a political movement, but had a systematic theory focused on cultural and ideological change that had far-reaching world significance.”
How has Maoist thought influenced the American left? The French philosopher Alain Badiou, in “Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution?” writes: “The changes that have taken place in China and in the world have shown that it is impossible for a true Marxist to be anything other than a Maoist in contemporary times, whether a ‘Gramscian’ or an ‘Althusserian. ‘ (Althusserians) are in fact the same.”
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