What Would Karl Marx Say About ‘Trained Marxist’ BLM Co-Founder’s Real-Estate Buying Binge?
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What Would Karl Marx Say About ‘Trained Marxist’ BLM Co-Founder’s Real-Estate Buying Binge?

Ian Haworth

Earlier this week, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors was widely slammed as a hypocrite after the self-proclaimed “trained Marxist” went on a “real-estate buying binge,” purchasing “four homes with a price tag totaling upwards of $3 million” and “also eyeing a spot in an ‘ultra-exclusive’ resort in the Bahamas, where the likes of musician Justin Timberlake and iconic golfer Tiger Woods both have homes.”

“We are trained Marxists,” Cullors said in 2015, speaking of the Black Lives Matter co-founders. “We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.”

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