Is Obama Really a Marxist? Puh-Lease

Obama's Crew

Obama a Marxist? I believe he is by the looks of people eho surround him.

Van Jones -Marxist / Communist

Mark Lloyd - Marxist

Rev Wright - Black Nationalist

Bill Ayers - radical

Anita Dunn - Praises Mau te Sung

Fenton of NJ @ Oct 15, 2009 21:55:47 PM

A right-wing witch hunt

'Unless he proves me wrong,' says Tom DeLay, 'Obama is a Marxist.'

That sounds very much like the sort of shameful and shoddy thinking that led to the burning of innocent women as witches centuries ago. And what would Mr. DeLay accept as proof? Obama's many comments in favor of free markets globally and of making money as the American way? All of the financial support he has received from Wall Street (as the author notes) and the insurance industry? The Wall Street bailout (to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars)?

How does DeLay even define Marxism?

Is someone who favors progressive taxation (as did Teddy Roosevelt) a Marxist? Is someone who supports Social Security a Marxist? Was FDR, then, a Marxist? Is it the redistribution of wealth that makes one a Marxist? Does that mean Tom DeLay thinks Pope Benedcit XVI is a Marxist? If Obama favors more government regulation, does anyone doubt we have suffered lately from too little such regulation?

I just do not see President Obama calling for a dictatorship of the proletariat, for example. So, unless he proves me otherwise, I think Tom DeLay is a right-wing witch-hunter whose intellectual views don't have much merit.

'Pointy-head' of WI @ Oct 04, 2009 10:21:14 AM

How old is this guy?

Is this guy 12? His conclusions would make one think so. This is simple. Obama is guiding us towards a path of "larger government presence/regulation" in healthcare, the automotive industry to name just two. How is this not a step towards socialism or at least a step in the opposite direction of capitalism? I think it's pretty clear where we are headed. The reality: when government hands it out, our hands become more tied. The ability of people in this country to realize the success of our predecessors is becoming diminished as we pass the wealth around. That is a fact. Our choices are becoming more and more limited. This is not the country our forefathers founded. It is not. We can't carry the burden of every man and woman. They must carry the burden themselves whether that be in issues of healthcare or welfare, neither of which are a right. They are privileges. If you think otherwise, it's your choice to donate. I'd like to keep my right to a choose. It's one of the few we still have left. Thank you.

JC Smith of CA @ Aug 13, 2009 01:49:09 AM

Marxist or Moron?

"I think to call someone a Marxist, you have to provide some evidence that he 1) believes capitalism is based on exploitation and 2) is calling for a worker's revolution."

So, Matt Bandyk, did you think of this false premise to base your moronic conclusion on all by your w-ittle self, or did your big brother help?

Go find Mommy now for another glass of Kool-Aid then snuggle with blankey for nap time....

Netizen Kane of AL @ Jul 14, 2009 17:03:31 PM

marxism/Obama

...With the major media (print, movies, TV: all almost exclusively leftist) serving as defacto propaganda wing of

Democratic "regime" it's lights out for anyone espousing

views which are at odds with "world opinion"

"strangulation by regulation and taxation" is one of the

techniques used by ever burgeoning and unaccountable bureaucracies to "bring it all down". The second US revolution-

the Marxist revolution of the past 50 years or so,

the one that has completely and irrovocably transformed the USA into a nation that is fragmented politically, racially, culturally. It is a larger and much more significant revolution than the revolution for independence from England.

Is Obama a marxist? By textbook definition, by any way you slice it, yes, unequivically. Was EBW Debois a communist?

More...

Tom @ May 29, 2009 05:08:54 AM

marxism

.. How far to the left has the uSA gone?

JFK, a "liberal democrat" of his time would be considered by many today to be a "right wing extremist" Indeed, Obama

would be considered by the JFK administration to be

a radical subversive. The bastardized term "liberal", as have many other terms of "newspeak", has been hijacked by the leftist "intelligensia". Obamas first supreme court selection

is a "get the white guy" racist. She fits nicely in the scheme of things. Forced quota hiring,an idea the Marxist Frankfurt School of the 20's would've been proud of, has decimated private, public and military sectors of USA....

More

Tom @ May 29, 2009 02:51:22 AM

marxism

Marxism has been in very real practice in the usa for the past

50 years or so. And it is gaining rapidly in strength.It's the silent, virilent slow killer of a free-enterprise society. Much like a mastasticizing cancer, it invades, imperceptively, over a long period of time, the political/social "organism" It may not fit the textbook definition of the term but in practice..

More, later

tom @ May 28, 2009 10:54:33 AM

Obama and Marxism

We haven't reached that point yet. It may one day get there. I hope the Leftists have more sense than to let it get there. Remember this, Leftists and Marxists are basically cowards. They hide in jungles and behind their women and children rather than taking the chance of an open battle and dying. Treat them like the cowards they are and they will back down.

gotham1883 of @ Jan 21, 2009 17:26:44 PM