JB Williams

Obama Supporters Never Heard of Socialism?
October 29, 2008

In response to increasing efforts by local market journalists to ask the questions the national media refuse to ask, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are growing furious at news reporters who have the audacity to label Obama’s socialist “wealth redistribution” campaign as “socialism”...

Obama and Biden’s entire campaign is based upon government confiscation and re-distribution of private earned wealth, -“over-taxing those according to their ability; and redistributing confiscated wealth according to politically motivated deceptions of need...”

Karl Marx, the father of “SOCIALISM” explained exactly what socialism is...

“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.”

According to Marx, the father of socialism, this is the definition of socialism! Yet Obama and Biden stand bold faced and proclaim before the world that they are not selling socialism. The world knows what they are selling. But many Obama supporters don’t know and don’t seem to care.

Is it possible that many Americans have never heard of socialism before?

Obama & Biden Understand

Both long-time students of famous American communists like Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, William Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright with his variety of commie community activism, both Obama and Biden embrace the teachings of Karl Marx.

In addition to the concept of robbing some citizens of their “pursuit of happiness” in order to promise government issued happiness for Obama campaign constituents, they subscribe to Marx’s notion that – “Democracy is the road to socialism.”

Through the exploitation of economic, gender and racial class warfare, a “proletariat” army of average citizens can be mobilized in a unified attack upon the nation’s most productive minority, robbed of their belongings and reduced to equal status with the non-productive.

They call this “economic equality” or “economic justice.”

But the people who authored this political agenda call it socialism, and in America, it is done by quasi-democratic process, aka Democratic Socialism.

The Power of the Useful Idiot

If you don’t know what socialism is, or what the founding American principles and values are for that matter, then you are in no position to protect and defend the United States of America from an enemy within.

When you are selling freedom and liberty down the river in exchange for central political power, it’s best to restrict your audience to only poor, ill-educated or well-indoctrinated constituents. True patriots of freedom can smell a rat from halfway around the globe.

In recent months I have received tons of reader mail from young leftist ideologues cheering the end of American capitalism and clamoring for a new age of socialist change. It’s as if they have been brainwashed by Castro and Chavez to believe in some kinder-gentler form of tyranny.

But I have also received reader mail from self-styled “conservatives” who can’t tell the difference between unbridled socialism and moral social conscience. One seeks to empower the politician; the other seeks to care for those unable to care for themselves.

Blissful ignorance is a powerful tool for anyone willing to exploit it for their own agenda. In this case, democracy may indeed be the road to socialism. The American people do have the power to trade individual freedom for socialism, if they so desire. The democratic process can be used either to preserve or to destroy.

Exploiting the Weak and Well-Indoctrinated

 “For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.” Karl Marx

Most Americans would choose a bullet in the head over communism, if that were the only choices available. So, the trick is to manipulate Americans into thinking they have another option.

After years of failed attempts to get the Communist Party or Socialist Party off the ground in America, leadership in the movement adopted a different, much more successful strategy.

Unable to compete openly with Americas two powerful political party’s nationally on the merit of communist and socialist principles and values, leaders in the movement decided to work from within one of the two parties.

As both communism and socialism prey on the proletariat (working class) for political power, the old “party of the people” seemed like the best party to work within.

The Democratic Socialists of America was formed as a spin-off of the Socialist Party USA for the stated purpose of working from inside the Democrat Party through its legislative arm, the Progressive Congressional Caucus, which now has more than sixty members seated in congress, all of whom played a significant roll in causing the current financial crisis.

Through incremental victories from within the power structure of the Democrat Party, over an extended period, the Communist Party and Socialist Party agenda would be advanced below the radar of the average American voter, many of whom still vote Democrat just because their parents did, or because their fellow union employees do.

These voters have no idea what they are actually supporting in today’s Democrat Party, even though the Democratic Socialists of America have been very open about their plans and their advances.

In a PDF file issued by the Democratic Socialists of America, they answer the question.

Why the Denial?

Both Obama and Biden continue to talk about “redistribution of wealth” in their campaign, while denying that “redistribution of wealth” is “socialism.”

The facts are clear and indisputable. Listening to Obama or Biden on the campaign stump is exactly like listening to Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. These men are Obama’s life-long heroes and mentors... That’s why they matter!

But even Karl Marx himself said, “I am not a Marxist.” This was a true statement, by the way... Karl Marx wasn’t a “Marxist.” He was a “communist.” – “In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Karl Marx

Marxism, named after Marx, was simply the new more marketable face of communism.

Likewise, Obama and Biden are selling Democratic Socialism. But Democratic Socialism is just the newest marketing name for socialism, Marxism, which is the kinder-gentler marketing term for communism.

The lie in the leftist campaign is the notion that socialism/communism are somehow acceptable, if achieved via democratic process. But it’s actually worse... Being thrust into chains by force is one thing; but voting yourself into bondage is something quite different...

Obama’s Final Plea for “Change!”

 “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”

This was Obama’s opening message to a massive audience from a rock concert stage in Germany, when he launched what is effectively an international campaign funded largely by foreign money from undisclosed sources.

It is also his “closing argument” in the final days of his campaign. But this quote came from Karl Marx... It’s only been adopted by Barack Obama.

This next quote belongs to Marx as well, a warning to all who desire individual freedom and liberty...

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist [Obama] revolution.”

If you are a self-reliant productive American, working hard to pursue the dream of freedom and liberty, YOU are the “ruling class” in America!

For you, socialism is the problem, not the solution. Past social spending has bankrupted every sector of our federal government and now it threatens to bring our entire economy crashing down. Our current financial crisis is the direct result of the Progressive Congressional Caucus forcing American lenders to make loans on the basis of “need” rather than “qualifications.”

If you think it’s an accident, you need to study The Cloward-Piven Strategy, written by Obama’s Columbia University heroes of the 1960s.

Yet according to all the current election polls, Americans are looking to Obama’s Democratic Socialism to solve the economic crisis which was caused by past socialist policies... Polls indicate that most Americans trust Obama more than McCain when it comes to dealing with the economic woes created by Democrats.

Americans had better wake up and fast! Or they will wake up on November 5th in a country they no longer recognized!