Obama's dad was a socialist?

[Unicorn]

"There's a big mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's Dreams For My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. What was Barack Obama doing seeking out Marxist professors in college? Why did Obama choose a Communist Party USA member as his socio- political counselor in high school? Why was he spending his time studying neocolonialism and the writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of "the Communist Manifesto of neocolonialsm", in college? Why did he take time out from his studies at Columbia to attend socialist conferences at Cooper Union?"...





1. Obama advocated the communal ownership of land and the forced confiscation of privately controlled land, as part of a forced "development plan", an important element of his attack on the government's advocacy of private ownership, land titles, and property registration. (p. 29)

2. Obama advocated the nationalization of "European" and "Asian" owned enterprises, including hotels, with the control of these operations handed over to the "indigenous" black population. (pp. 32 -33)

3. Obama advocated dramatically increasing taxation on "the rich" even up to the 100% level, arguing that, "there is no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation which they have to pay" (p. 30) and that, "Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed." (p. 31)

4. Obama contrasts the ill-defined and weak-tea notion of "African Socialism" negatively with the well-defined ideology of "scientific socialism", i.e. communism. Obama views "African Socialism" pioneers like Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Toure as having diverted only "a little" from the capitalist system. (p. 26)

5. Obama advocates an "active" rather than a "passive" program to achieve a classless society through the removal of economic disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans. (p. 28) "While we welcome the idea of a prevention [of class problems], we should try to cure what has slipped in .. we .. need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now .. so long as we maintain free enterprise one cannot deny that some will accumulate more than others .. " (pp. 29-30)

6. Obama advocates price controls on hotels and the tourist industry, so that the middle class and not only the rich can afford to come to Kenya as tourists. (p. 33)

7. Obama advocates government owned and operated "model farms" as a means of teaching modern farming techniques to farmers. (p. 33)

8. Obama strongly supports the governments assertion of a "non-aligned" status in the contest between Western nations and communist nations aligned with the Soviet Union and China. (p. 26)

A right-wing blogger gives interesting info. Ignore the spin.

http://gregransom.com/prestopundit/2008/04/gregs-guide-to-barack-obamas-d.html

[Jazzratt]

A right-wing blogger gives interesting info. Ignore the spin.

Why? It makes a lot of the "facts" questionable and is certainly going to colour the analysis of those unfamiliar with Mr. Obama's centre-right politics - possibly to the point of giving a false reason for celebration. Obama is the lesser of a heap of evils, that doesn't mean he is good for the left - I doubt (for example) that under his presidency there will be much of a let up in the CIA's attacking "narco-terrorists" (including various leftist groups) under the pretence of a war on drugs.

Also, remember that while OBama might have felt in his earlier years that he was obliged to act in a way that "honoured" what are presented as his father's politics, I think it is perfectly obvious from his being a democratic candidate for presidency that he has perhaps done a bit of a 180.

[Unicorn]

According to National Review the fact that Obama's parents were in an interracial marriage indicates that they were Communists. :D

Do the people on OI agree?



Until I came across this article by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, which I regard as factual — with all that that implies — the questions about Obama's background that should have come naturally never quite rose to the surface of my mind. Barack Obama is the new man, of course. His mixed race is a symbol of that. Just like Tiger Woods — as we have read, endlessly. What's to wonder about?

But maybe it's not so simple. Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics. (During the Clinton Administration we were all introduced to then U. of Pennsylvania Professor Lani Guinier — also a half black/half Jewish, red diaper baby.)

I don't know how Barak Obama's parents met. But the Kincaid article referenced above makes a very convincing case that Obama's family, later, (mid 1970s) in Hawaii, had close relations with a known black Communist intellectual. And, according to what Obama wrote in his first autobiography, the man in question — Frank Marshall Davis — appears to have been Barack's own mentor, and even a father figure. Of course, since the Soviet Union itself no longer exists, it's an open question what it means practically to have been politically mentored by an official Communist. Ideologically, the implications are clearer.

Political correctness was invented precisely to prevent the mainstream liberal media from persuing the questions which might arise about how Senator Obama's mother, from Kansas, came to marry an African graduate student. Love? Sure, why not? But what else was going on around them that made it feasible? Before readers level cheap accusations of racism — let's recall that the very question of interracial marriage only became a big issue later in the 1960s. The notion of a large group of mixed race Americans became an issue during and after the Vietnam War. Even the civil-rights movement kept this culturally explosive matter at arm's distance.

It was, of course, an explicit tactic of the Communist party to stir up discontent among American blacks, with an eye toward using them as the leading edge of the revolution. To be sure, there was much to be discontented about, for black Americans, prior to the civil-rights revolution. To their credit, of course, most black Americans didn't buy the commie line — and showed more faith in the possibilities of democratic change than in radical politics, and the results on display in Moscow.

Time for some investigative journalism about the Obama family's background, now that his chances of being president have increased so much.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmM2NDQ3ZWQ1YWM0Y2QyZTUxMDdkY2M2OTJlNGE5MWE=

[Joby]

Barack Obama's father a Leftist Anti-CIA type?

Gee, he is from Kenya, yet I wonder why :rolleyes:



Obama is the lesser of a heap of evils, that doesn't mean he is good for the left - I doubt (for example) that under his presidency there will be much of a let up in the CIA's attacking "narco-terrorists" (including various leftist groups) under the pretence of a war on drugs.


I certainly hope not, though he has said he would talk to Hugo Chavez, and I hope they'll be able to reach a plane and get some hostages released.

[Comrade_Scott]

big fuckin whoop!!!!!!!!!!! does this stop him from being a prick who is gonna screw us all up? no no it wont.

[Bud Struggle]

big fuckin whoop!!!!!!!!!!! does this stop him from being a prick who is gonna screw us all up? no no it wont.


Well, I'm a Capitalist and I support Obama. He's do a good job in cleaning up America's image. I don't believe he will change or be allowed to change any substantive in America's way of doing business--but hundreds of millions of people all over the world will love him for his charisma, his message and his blackness.

Overall, he will be a great brand change for the United States. He'll do a great job in selling America to the rest of the world.

[Joby]

big fuckin whoop!!!!!!!!!!! does this stop him from being a prick who is gonna screw us all up? no no it wont.

No, Obama being elected President of America will not help you.