Yesterday, I heard Donald Trump call BLM “Marxist.” That was unfortunate: if that lying sonofabitch is going to say something true, I would much prefer it be something less important, something it’s OK to dismiss because he said it. But that’s not the case this time.

BLM is a Marxist organization. Apologists say that the “movement” is broader than the views of the founders, but that’s like saying that many supporters of the Russian revolution were not Leninists or Stalinists. In the end, though, what mattered was that Lenin and Stalin were.

It matters that BLM is Marxist because BLM’s tactics are Stalinist. That’s why a BLM supporter can insist that his conservation-activist “friend” (or should I say “comrade”) drop everything and become and anti-racist activist. To totalitarians, if you are not part of their solution, you are part of their problem. And if you not part of the solution all of the time, you are part of the problem the rest of the time.

First, it implies that some issues matter more than others. The way it was phrased strongly hinted that he felt that the Australian bushfires mattered less than the Black Lives Matter movement.

Well, some causes are “more important” than others, but there at least two dimensions to this problem. Mr. Cameron describes two good causes “competing” for the attention of someone trying to help, and his “friend” is criticizing him for making the politically incorrect choice. But the same logic that says “BLM trumps burning roos” also says “BLM trumps bourgeois rights.” To the Marxist, justice trumps freedom; but then the Leninist-Stalinist comes along, and tyranny hijacks justice. When someone says “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem,” and the reason you’re not part of the solution is that you’re defending freedom, freedom is in trouble. That’s why I’m happy to say that Black lives matter, but I will not say “Black Lives Matter.”