Highlights:
- There were extended periods of Obama's life when he was an open socialist, including a phase as a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary.
- There's a surprisingly long paper trail re: Obama.
- Obama's community organizer pals thought of themselves as socialists, they just didn't say so.
- American socialism changed during Reagan's presidency: "de facto control over the economy from below."
- ie. Community Organizing
- Example: ACORN's role in creating the Housing Bubble.
- Obama's overall strategy.
- Obama has lived his whole life in 'a thoroughly socialist world."
- Frank Marshall Davis
- Obama was an open Marxist-Leninist revolutionary in college.
- Obama attended socialist scholars conferences in NYC from 1983 to 1985.
- Obama saw himself at the cutting edge of 'resisting Ronald Reagan."
- Bill Ayres was part of the Chicago Stealth Socialism network.
- Brought Obama onto various education related boards.
- Chicago school 'reform' was Ayres brainchild.
- Smokescreen for 'community control of government' to move in a long-term socialist direction.
- Taking over via a long term series of local elections.
- Allied with then Chicago mayor Harold Washington.
- Moving to the suburbs meant 'abandoning' poor minorities in the inner-city.
- Government programs, not self-improvment.
- 'Socialism from below' is embedded into all sorts of Obama-era legislation (ie. Dodd-Frank)
- Obama wants to have a class-based battle over the Bush tax cuts in 2012.
- Obama's mentors thought that, if class became the primary dividing line in American politics, we'd move towards Socialism.
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