IS OBAMA A MARXIST? PART 2
White folks’ greed runs a world in need.
– Rev. Jeremiah Wright (as quoted by Obama in his second biography)
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) – a renowned Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a method of teaching by asking leading questions. The Greeks called this form dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and moving back and forth between points of view to determine how well ideas stand up to critical review with the ultimate principle of the Socratic dialectic being Veritas – Truth.
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Socrates
President Barack Obama
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev
Socrates: We are gathered here today at my symposium to discuss this question: Is President Obama a Marxist? Karl Marx, the father of socialism and communism, in his 1875 essay, “Critique of the Gotha Program,” defined the parameters of his “new” worldview: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Marx believed the cause of all suffering in society was the unequal distribution of resources.
To achieve equity or egalitarianism, the equality of results, he borrowed ideas from the French Revolution 50 years before writing “The Communist Manifesto” (1848), which required brutal force be used to effect social change. Who would confiscate resources, money, taxes, property from the rich (“bourgeoisie”) and give it equally to the working-class poor (“proletariat”)? The state: Marx’s materialist interpretation of history deemed that the omnipotent state would provide care for all its citizens from cradle to the grave. In return, the people would cast away their allegiance to God, which Marx called “the opiate of the people” and Nietzsche called “slave morality,” and give unquestioned loyalty to the god of the state.
President Obama, again I ask: Are you a Marxist?
Obama: Well, uuuhhh, aaahhh, Mr. Socrates, first let me state that I find your question quite insulting. Of course I’m not a Marxist, or a socialist, or a communist. I am a liberal Democrat following the traditions of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and LBJ. I am a progressive.
Socrates: Let us review the words from your own mouth. In October 2008, when you first ran for president, a man called “Joe the Plumber” asked about the economic policies you planned for America. You plainly answered, “When you spread the wealth around its good for everybody.” That sounds awfully Marxist doesn’t it?
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