by Mark Rhoads
If actions speak louder than words,the actions and attempted policies and of Barack Obama have shown him to be the most radical American president of all time in just his short time in office to date. According to Democratic members of Congress quoted in The New York Times today who were personally lobbied on Saturday by President Obama to vote for the Pelosi bill, Obama's three major pleas were "to keep the process moving," reject the "anti-government Tea baggers" and he also warned the members that "I don't want you to be on the wrong side of history." Assuming the reports are correct, that is very revealing language on the part of Obama since that phrase has deep roots in the dialectical materialsim of Karl Marx and the historical determinism of Friederich Engels.
Although the term "Marxist thinker" might sound somewhat oxymoronic, those writers who embraced that term years before Obama was born often were enamored with the comforting and self-delusional superstition that they could not lose the ideological war with non-collectivists because they and they alone were morally superior beings who believed they "were "on the right side of history." As some explained in the middle of the last century, the worker's paradise would eventually triumph because it was "inevitable" that is should do so. Their popular Marxist fomula of that era was that "as the acorn grows to the tree, so also shall communism replace capitalism in the sweep of history."
The extremist radical rhetoric of Barack Obama is puzzling on many levels because it sounds so anachronistic in 2009. Obama sounds like a throw-back to radicals who once walked the Earth in the 1930s. The irony of such radicals is that they always thought of themselves as on the cutting edge of the future, when in truth their ideas would turn back the clock to the middle ages when many people worked as serfs whose labor belonged not to themsevles but to their feudal lords who ruled them. For window dressing, the radicals justified serfdom to the state by claiming it was all so terribly necessary for the greater good of all, of course as defined by them. The only major difference between the Fabian socialists of one hundred years ago in England and the German Marxists was that they had slightly different visions of what their secular Utopia might look like. But Fabians, such as Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, and George Barnard Shaw in the UK, or Jack London and Upton Sinclair in the U.S., may have been more elitist but they agreed with the Marxists about collectivism being on "the right side of history" and the "inevitable" victory of some form of elite socialism over freedom. Since Barack Obama never revealed his college transcripts from Occidental or Columbia or Harvard Law School, it is impossible to know what courses he might have taken in economics, political science, or American history, if any or from what professors who assigned what books. What is more clear now from Chicago radio station interviews with Obama about ten years ago when he was a state senator, and his recent actions in office, Obama is no mere Fabian. His radical ideas, whereever and however he got them, can be directly traced back to a more radical strain of collectivist superstitions. His Left Wing ideological passion is no accident. He is committed to radical change in America's economy and the human freedom of American citizens does not enter into his thought process, because he is a wannabe elitist who is emotionally enslaved by the fantasies of radical Utopian Socialism.
America is in for 12 more scary months until the 2010 Congressional elections, but ultimately the desire of Americans for freedom, and not the desire of others to enslave them, will be on the right side of history and the Obama-Pelosi radicals will be on the wrong side. Every individual who loves freedom, can do something to help even it is writing letters or calling Members of Congress you think are too far gone to listen. You know the stakes, try anyway.
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