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socialist. That’s an absurd claim, you say? It’s not absurd—it’s alarming. And in a moment, we’ll take a look at what these czars believe, including Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom, Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg, Science Czar John Holdren, Climate Czar Carol Browner, Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein, former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, and former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn.
Let’s start with Barack’s own admission about his pursuit of Marxism. In his memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama freely admits that he sought out Marxist professors in college: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”12
What are we to make of this personal disclosure?
Was his interest in Marxism a casual thing? Perhaps nothing more than a passing flirtation with liberal ideals? Did he study it to impress the liberal girls on campus, you know, like some sort of genius spouting heady Marxisms? Or, was the young, impressionable Obama aligning himself with Marxist ideology? Did he become a disciple of Marxist-Leninist philosophies? And, more important, is he functioning in the White House as a closet Marxist revolutionary?
Pause there for a moment.
Many of us have changed in our beliefs in adulthood from the days of our youth. I am one of them. When I was young and inexperienced, I was once a liberal—never a Marxist or follower of Lenin, but I was admittedly a liberal. There’s an old adage that says, “Those who are not a Marxist at 20 have no heart, and those who are still one at 40 have no mind.” Obama is at the age of enlightenment in that he’s over the age of forty. We can only assume that his politics have changed somewhat—but we really don’t know how far they may have changed from his early enchantments with Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky, the fathers of communism.
Back to my original question:
Is Barack Obama a casual or a serious disciple of Karl Marx?
Dr. John Drew, a contemporary of young Barack at Occidental College, witnessed Obama’s total immersion and participation in Marxism. To understand the significance of this, you must know a few basics about John Drew. While a student at Oxy, John wrote his senior honors paper on Marxist economics and, by his own admission, was a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist and founder of the only Marxist student association on campus. What’s more, he was well aware of the grave implications of being a “Marxist revolutionary.” He explains:
I did not take my status of Marxist revolutionary lightly in the fall of 1980. To me it was a serious business. It meant that I was an enemy, in a sense, of the U.S. government. It meant that I was an enemy of the wealthy people who were ruling the country. And it meant that I was willing to take whatever sacrifices … to confront that power structure. So for me, being a Marxist college student wasn’t sort of a light-hearted walk in the park. It was a dead-serious statement that was impacting my career, my relationships, and my studies.
In other words, he had a serious Marxist BS detector.
After being introduced to Obama who, he was told, “was one of us,” John spent long hours discussing their mutual interest in Marxist theories. He came to view Obama as a “blood brother” and a “member of this revolutionary elite that was going to turn around our country when the revolution hit.” There’s another firsthand observation of Obama the Marxist student worth noting. John recalls:
He wasn’t an idle explorer of intellectual Marxism. I know this is kind of incendiary, but he was basically a Marxist-Leninist. He believed that there was a revolutionary class that was going to turn around our whole nation, redistribute wealth, change control over private property.13
Are you starting to get the picture?
Is it any surprise, then, that candidate Obama spoke
Let’s start with Barack’s own admission about his pursuit of Marxism. In his memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama freely admits that he sought out Marxist professors in college: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”12
What are we to make of this personal disclosure?
Was his interest in Marxism a casual thing? Perhaps nothing more than a passing flirtation with liberal ideals? Did he study it to impress the liberal girls on campus, you know, like some sort of genius spouting heady Marxisms? Or, was the young, impressionable Obama aligning himself with Marxist ideology? Did he become a disciple of Marxist-Leninist philosophies? And, more important, is he functioning in the White House as a closet Marxist revolutionary?
Pause there for a moment.
Many of us have changed in our beliefs in adulthood from the days of our youth. I am one of them. When I was young and inexperienced, I was once a liberal—never a Marxist or follower of Lenin, but I was admittedly a liberal. There’s an old adage that says, “Those who are not a Marxist at 20 have no heart, and those who are still one at 40 have no mind.” Obama is at the age of enlightenment in that he’s over the age of forty. We can only assume that his politics have changed somewhat—but we really don’t know how far they may have changed from his early enchantments with Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky, the fathers of communism.
Back to my original question:
Is Barack Obama a casual or a serious disciple of Karl Marx?
Dr. John Drew, a contemporary of young Barack at Occidental College, witnessed Obama’s total immersion and participation in Marxism. To understand the significance of this, you must know a few basics about John Drew. While a student at Oxy, John wrote his senior honors paper on Marxist economics and, by his own admission, was a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist and founder of the only Marxist student association on campus. What’s more, he was well aware of the grave implications of being a “Marxist revolutionary.” He explains:
I did not take my status of Marxist revolutionary lightly in the fall of 1980. To me it was a serious business. It meant that I was an enemy, in a sense, of the U.S. government. It meant that I was an enemy of the wealthy people who were ruling the country. And it meant that I was willing to take whatever sacrifices … to confront that power structure. So for me, being a Marxist college student wasn’t sort of a light-hearted walk in the park. It was a dead-serious statement that was impacting my career, my relationships, and my studies.
In other words, he had a serious Marxist BS detector.
After being introduced to Obama who, he was told, “was one of us,” John spent long hours discussing their mutual interest in Marxist theories. He came to view Obama as a “blood brother” and a “member of this revolutionary elite that was going to turn around our country when the revolution hit.” There’s another firsthand observation of Obama the Marxist student worth noting. John recalls:
He wasn’t an idle explorer of intellectual Marxism. I know this is kind of incendiary, but he was basically a Marxist-Leninist. He believed that there was a revolutionary class that was going to turn around our whole nation, redistribute wealth, change control over private property.13
Are you starting to get the picture?
Is it any surprise, then, that candidate Obama spoke
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