Ignoring the fact that ‘trained Marxist’ is very odd phrasing, she also says they are “super-versed on ideological theories”, so one would assume Marxist theory is just one area that they’ve studied.
It helps to take the entire statement verbatim and see what's going on within each part of the whole.
"We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself, and Alicia in particular, are trained organisers. We are trained Marxists. We are super versed on ideological theories."
Parse that statement in the simple, standard way, and you get this:
We have a frame
That frame is Marxism
We are well read on ideological theories
What happens in the middle is she conflates "organising" with Marxism. In that conflation, she gives the game away -- when she refers to "organising", she means revolutionary action informed by Marxist theory.
Which is to say, they're "trained mobilisers". They're simply following a 1-2-3 framework for inciting Socialist revolution. It's as easy as that.
(Don't get me wrong, though, it's most certainly wrapped up inside a worthy cause.)
The verbal commitment to Marxism appearing
before the statement about being educated places it as a point of focus. In fact, it's the only ideology mentioned
explicitly.
This is an ownership claim made before widening the net to say "we're very educated on other ideologies
too".
I mean, you could argue that she simply didn't put her statement across in a particularly clear way (though that appears to be a hallmark of this movement), so let's offer the benefit of the doubt.
But I don't think that's the case here. Arguing that they might not be a Socialist organisation at this point is like the wilfully ignorant in America who continue to say the DSA "isn't really Socialist" and "doesn't want to remove Capitalism" even though both are quite plainly stated on their website.
I can't find the specifics anymore as it was around 2017 or so when I fell out with the movement over their manifesto. This was the early days and I wanted to know more, with the intention of donating to the cause.
Unfortunately, that cause included a commitment to increasing teachings to children in black churches of "Jesus as a revolutionary". It was said in a few more words, as you'd imagine, but boiled down to using religious indoctrination to create generations of disaffected, budding insurgents (that's perhaps too harsh a word).
The site has obviously gone through multiple iterations since then, so I'd probably need to scour online commentary to find it and can't be bothered rotting my brain with that at this point, lol.
Regardless, it was very easy to put two and two together then and see that the entire thing is about control. Not liberation, not protection, not cohesion. Control, within and without.
And it's no surprise, then, that the whole thing has devolved into a religious type of fervour. Nearly every day on social media I watch people viciously gaslight, bully, belittle and accuse even their closest friends if they dare open their mouths to even question a tenet of the faith. Their so-called critical thinking is the least critical I've ever seen outside of more established fundamentalist dogma.
I've been extremely anti-theist for most of my life, studied religions, cults and the psychology that maintains them, and can spot this stuff a mile away.
But this isn't necessarily the fault of the BLM movement itself. It's caused by the genuine problems raised by that movement now coming packaged along with a monstrous form of (almost pop) Critical Theory, especially race. This will not end well, and at this point one has to assume that utter destabilisation is actually the goal -- because there's no way anyone with two functioning brain cells can think fostering division and hyper-awareness inside an already exhausted and anxious population (the result of loosening the reins too much on Capitalist exploitation) can lead to anything but a firestorm.
Still, you have to give it to them. They've played a blinder in getting it established. In some respects, this "new awakening" has plenty of positive changes it could usher in. Sadly, it appears to have taken the more ugly path in terms of communication and interpersonal relations with "non-believers" -- and once that happens, it's usually a downward spiral.
