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Report Urges Congressional Investigation on Black Lives Matter Organizations

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/how-cultural-marxism-threatens-the-united-states-and-how-americans-can-fight
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-civil-disorders
https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-cultural-marxism-threatens-us-and-how-americans-can-fight-it_4861962.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/conservative-think-tank-report-urges-congressional-investigation-on-blm-organizations_4861477.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/live-qa-with-mike-gonzalez-how-race-narratives-are-driving-a-marxist-revolution-in-america_4204102.html

A new special report on cultural Marxism is urging Congress to hold
hearings on Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizations.

America’s political leaders shouldn’t shy away from investigating any
organizations with the words “Black Lives Matter” in their titles for
fear of the “racist” label, according to the report’s authors, Mike
Gonzalez, an expert at the conservative think tank Heritage
Foundation, and Katharine Gorka, a national security expert and former
research fellow with the Heritage Foundation.

“Because [BLM organizations] have been the vector for the introduction
of cultural Marxism into the lives of all Americans, getting serious
about the threat that the BLM organizations represent is the most
immediate, and easiest, thing that Americans can do to confront
Marxism,” the report reads.

The authors define cultural Marxism as a more sophisticated and
nuanced version of Marxism led by American Marxists “under the
pretense of social justice.” Instead of pitting workers against
capitalists, cultural Marxists use race and gender to drive wedges
between various racial groups and between children and parents to
destroy the nuclear family in America, according to the authors.

The report argues that critical race theory—a framework that views
America as systemically racist—in education, America’s war on climate
change, and corporate America’s environmental, social, and corporate
governance rules are all parts of Marxist strategies.

On Nov. 14, a discussion about this report was held at the Heritage
Foundation, and Gonzalez told the audience that it’s legal to be a
communist in the United States, but people should be aware of the BLM
leaders’ Marxist beliefs and intentions.

According to the U.S. Crisis Monitor, 633 riots took place in 2020
after the death of George Floyd, Gonzalez said in a previous Epoch
Times interview. The Insurance Information Institute noted that these
riots were the costliest civil unrest in U.S. history, with insured
losses estimated at more than $2 billion.

“I think the country should know whether you [leaders of BLM
organizations] have unleashed this level of violence and have had
these riots because you believe in these ideas,” Gonzalez said at the
event.

Leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF),
an umbrella organization for the BLM movement, had openly said they
were “trained Marxists,” and they should be the subject of
congressional investigations, according to the special report’s
authors.

Alicia Garza, one of the BLMGNF founders, said at a Left Forum
convention, “It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives
matter if it’s under capitalism. And it’s not possible to abolish
capitalism without a struggle against national oppression and gender
oppression.”

Left Forum is a Marxist organization.
Epoch Times Photo Sebastian Gorka with his wife, Katharine, at a
parents’ rally outside the Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls
Church, Va., on June 16, 2022. (Terri Wu/The Epoch Times)

Sebastian Gorka, a former strategist for President Donald Trump and
host of the “America First” radio show, praised the paper as “crucial”
in addressing a new Marxist challenge different than that in the Cold
War.

“The challenge has so utterly transmogrified from an external kinetic
military one to an internal political one. And [BLM activists] have
rights, but they’re undermining the Constitution with those rights,”
he said.

Representatives for BLMGNF didn’t respond to a request by The Epoch
Times for comment by press time.