{"id":521832,"date":"2021-05-18T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521832"},"modified":"2021-05-18T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:36:18","slug":"blm-co-founder-promotes-pamphlet-she-compares-to-maos-red-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-co-founder-promotes-pamphlet-she-compares-to-maos-red-book\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM co-founder promotes pamphlet she compares to Mao\u2019s \u2018Red Book\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblm-co-founder-promotes-pamphlet-she-compares-to-maos-red-book%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2408980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2408980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrisse Cullors, the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, is pictured. (Willy Sanjuan\/Invision\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:27 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, May 18, 2021<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=suN8QTMojEY\">A video resurfaced<\/a> of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter optimistically promoting a book she compared to infamous Chinese leader Mao Zedong\u2019s communist red book.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech in 2010, Patrisse Cullors highlighted a pamphlet titled \u201cThe 7 Components of Transformative Organizing Theory.\u201d In the video, she told the story of how a student came up to her and compared it to Mao\u2019s red book to which she enthusiastically agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Mao was responsible for launching China into the so-called \u201cGreat Leap Forward\u201d during the late 1950s and early 60s, which resulted in mass famine and the deaths of an estimated 4 million people. His red book was a propaganda pamphlet meant to reassert Mao\u2019s position in China following the catastrophic results of his communist policies.<\/p>\n<p>The pamphlet Cullors was touting was written by radical far-left activist Eric Mann who has expressed extreme communist sympathies. For instance, he wrote about his admiration for the Soviet Union in a 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/the-100th-anniversary-of-the-october-revolution-the_b_5a0a128ce4b006523921833c\">Huffington Post article<\/a>, noting \u201ca great appreciation of the achievements of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union is a critical part of our revolutionary future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cullors has a history of connecting herself and fellow Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza to Marxist and communist thinking, stating in June of 2020 that she and Garza are \u201ctrained Marxists.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/recipient-of-employer-support-award-on-supporting-community-through-hospitality-group\/\">Recipient Of Employer Support Award On Supporting Community Through Hospitality Group<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrisse Cullors, the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, is pictured. 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