[lbo-talk] Frank: BHO should welcome their hatred

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Jan 21 11:59:06 PST 2009


shag wrote:


> If I've understood you correctly,
I do have to wonder why Obama
> should be
> aware of what a leftist/leftish
critique of his activities is. I
> could see
> him being aware of what
various democrats and liberals think, but I
> can't
> see him being particularly
aware of how Marxists think and, if he
> is, my
> guess is that he'd get it quite
wrong. I don't know, I just think

that
> it's fairly easy to be a very smart person and go through life being
> completely in the dark about leftist/leftish critique of politics in
> the
> u.s -- or elsewhere for that matter.

I ain't read it, but in one of his "books," Obama reports on having gone to a Socialist Scholars Conference in New York while he was at Columbia.

^^^ CB; Yeah, he was a campus left political activist. In one passage, he talks about

two Marxists debating

each other outside of some meeting. Then to become a community organizer coming out

of college based on inspiration from the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.

Wow ! that's left ! His mother seems to have

been a lefty, anti-colonialist thinker, too. Rev. Wright's church is very left.

My impression is that his background is

as left and probably

involves as much

familiarity with Marxism as the people on this list. Just the way he said the word "socialism" when it came up in the campaign. He knows what it is.

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