Obama's Socialist Party Connection

Stanley Kurtz has an almost haunting article today on Barack Obama and the socialist New Party:

First, he discusses the goal of the party's co-founder, Joel Rogers:

In Rogers’s view, then, American capitalism needs to be tamed and transformed in fundamental, structural, ways, a task which mere liberals are unable and unwilling to undertake. Rogers does also slam America’s use of force in pursuit of its foreign policy goals, and decry our legacy of “four hundred years’ racism.” Yet his focus is clearly on the need to transform the very structure of the American economy.

Kurtz lays out a very strong case regarding the following:

...there can be no doubt that in 1996, Obama made his first run for office as a New Party-endorsed candidate. And while Obama and Joel Rogers continue to deny it, a raft of accumulating evidence points to the fact that Obama was a New Party member.

And he concludes:

All of this matters, not because of some simplistic associational “gotcha,” but because Obama’s still somewhat mysterious ideology, as revealed in that 2001 radio interview, is greatly illuminated by his New Party ties. The New Party advocated gradual, but radical economic change, arguably socialist, but in any case heavily redistributive, all swathed in the soothing vocabulary of traditional American democracy, and grounded in the hope that the reach of groups like ACORN could one day be multiplied many times over. This, I’d wager, is what Barack Obama believed when he was endorsed by the New Party in 1996, what he believed when he spoke of “major redistributive change” on the radio in 2001, and what he hopes to accomplish (over time) should he become president of the United States in 2009.

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[The Case for Obama as a Marixst?]

We know that Barack Obama attended Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years. TUCC admittedly adopted the Black Value System that are essential values of black liberation theology. So, Barack Obama sat in a church for 20 years and listened to REv. Jeremiah Wright preach black liberation theology.

Liberation theology is a school of theology within Christianity, and it emphasizes the Christian mission to bring justice to the poor and oppressed, particularly through political activism. Its theologians consider sin the root source of poverty, recognizing sin as capitalism, and capitalism as class war by the rich against the poor. So, marxism is the very concept on which black liberation theology is based.

Marxist doctrine believes that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.

So, Marxism defines the class war that will take place to arrive at socialism and a classless society (in Marxist theory) which is a state following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism

TUCC says that: "These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered." So, did Barack Obama sit in that church for 20 years and learn these principles very well and display them through his political activism, or was he just there for 20 years to further his political career? In my mind, he believes in the principles of Marxism, and also believes that the transition from capitalism to socialism is a noble goal.

This is why the association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and TUCC are so critical. They have been the greatest influence upon Barack Obama in the formation of his human value system.

[Joe Guarino]

Case, I agree with you for the most part about the theology of the church that Obama chose to affiliate himself with for twenty years. Its theology does have a Marxist/socialist flavor.

But Obama had shown these tendencies even before he joined that church. His socialist/communist/Marxist associations go back to his high school and college days. And remember, he was a community organizer, having been trained in the Alinsky method, before he joined the church. The philosophy of community organizing has socialist underpinnings.

And he made the decision to join the church because he felt it would help his community organizing; and because he liked the politics the church espoused. He already had those leanings.

[The Case for Obama as a Marixst?]

This case definitively associates Barack Obama with Marxism and socialism. His accidental slip of "spread the wealth" confirms his belief in Marxism, and his activities as a political activist and community organizer in Chicago put to work his training by Jeremiah Wright. This is why the link with Wright is essential to be made.

[The Case for Obama as a Marixst?]

Young Andrew Clark's comments on Doug's blog seems to indicate that he is smitten by and intrigued with the black liberation theology, socialism and Obama. Of course, he tries to unsuccessfully disassociate it all with Marxism. But, like all young people, he tends to be quite infatuated with leftist thought.

[The Case for Obama as a Marixst?]

William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire

http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/

So, what was and is Obama's relationship with this American Terrorist and American Communist? This is frightening stuff, folks. And, this guy is considered a leading education professor in the country? What is he teaching your children; how to fight, seize power, and build the new society? Is this what Ayers and Obama was promoting at their CAC?