One of the key aspects of Marxism is doing away with private property for any class. What actions or words of Obama indicate that he is a Marxist? What of all the actions and words he has said which can reasonably be construed to indicate that he is for private property?
Obama has worked more actively than any other American President to date to bring government (centralized planning) control over American business, health, education, and personal freedoms. He has obviously not "arrived" as yet, but he is decidedly working toward a full Marxist position. Hugo Chavez applauded his efforts at nationalizing businesses.
We have not yet seen the items enacted into law under his administration -- most being deferred until after the 2012 elections for some reason or another. I shudder when I think about how many thousands of pages of legislation he has signed into law -- things that no one in the public have yet seen or read.
Then, there are the people he has brought on as advisers. Several have dropped out of his administration after it was discovered that they were fully Marxist in ideology, but others remain. Why bring in Marxist-leaning advisers if one is not moving in that direction?
He has managed to pull off centralized health care, and in that bill also assumes the right to determine many otherwise private life issues, such as deciding if a patient deserves the right to medical care at end of life or otherwise.
Bill Ayers -- a known communist and founder of the Weather Underground, is one of Obama's best friends and political advisers.
His college days saw his involvement in Marxist thought:
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02...y-days-as-an-anti-apartheid-student-activist/
My most vivid memory of my time visiting with Obama was the way he strongly argued a rather simple-minded version of Marxist theory. I remember he was passionate about his point of view. As I remember, he was articulating the same Marxist theory taught by various professors at Occidental College. Based on my more detailed studies at Cornell, I remember I made a strong argument that his Marxist ideas were not in line with contemporary reality - particularly the practical experience of Western Europe.
Nevertheless, I think my experience with the young Barack Obama is useful evidence of why he was able to win the trust and support of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Alice Palmer. In 1995, Alice Palmer represented the state of Illinois’ 13th District. After she decided to run for Congress she named Obama as her hand-picked successor. Palmer’s extremist ideology is evident in an article she wrote for the Communist Party USA’s newspaper, the People’s Daily World, now the People’s Weekly World in June, 1986. Amazingly, it detailed her experience at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Finally, he is fully supported as the candidate of choice for the CPUSA (read their site!). They love him and he is their candidate of choice for POTUS.
Note that Marxism doesn't have to mean a dictatorship, but many (even here) wonder if that is indeed the future direction of America.
