Those of us in the blogosphere that are interested in Obama’s political views that guided him during his formative years as a young man and later as an adult, will not be surprised by this latest revelation, in which an old classmate of Obama’s, a Dr.John Drew, in an interview by Paul Kengor on The Glen Meakem Show, reveals the hard leftist viewpoints of the current US president during his scholastic years, that might help explain why he’s so eager to have his all records under lock and key.
Dr.John Drew: I was a comrade, but I was more… the Frankfort School of Marxism at the time. I was, I felt like I was doing him a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and Caroline and Shandu were hoping for was really kind of a pipe-dream. And that there was nothing in European history, or the history of developed nations, that would make that sort of fantasy, that Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of revolution, come true.
When Dr.John Drew said that he was “doing him (Obama) a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he (Obama) and Caroline and Shandu were hoping for was really kind of a pipe-dream.” he was merely pointing out what Adolf Hitler and other Marxists knew all along, that “class warfare” theory was bunk, and that Capitalism had won.
Something else had to take the proletariat’s place, that’s what the Frankfurt School would promote, the rise of social/cultural issues, that would attack the West from every side, where class warfare theory failed, cultural Marxism (read Political Correctness would succeed). Cultural Marxism was born, and Political Correctness would be the means by which the West would be forced into accepting it.
Watch the video an learn, Frank Kitman has an excellent bio of it here.
Exclusive transcript: Obama at Occidental ‘was looking forward to an imminent… revolution, where the working class would overthrow the ruling class’
Q: …John, you had told me before, and I’m reading from my book, that “Obama was already an ardent Marxist in the fall of 1980 when I met him. I know it’s incendiary to say this, but although he said inDreams From My Father that he’d ‘hung out with Marxist professors’, he did not explain in that book or clarify is that he was 100% in total agreement with those professors.
A: Yeah, you’ve got that exactly right. Obama believed, at the time I met him, this was probably around Christmas time in 1980. I’d flown out on Christmas break from Cornell, where I was in grad school. And Obama was looking forward to an imminent social revolution, literally a movement where the working classes would overthrow the ruling class and institute a kind of socialist Utopia in the United States. I mean, that’s how extreme his views were his sophomore year of college.
…I was a comrade, but I was more… the Frankfort School of Marxism at the time. I was, I felt like I was doing him a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and Caroline and Shandu were hoping for was really kind of a pipe-dream. And that there was nothing in European history, or the history of developed nations, that would make that sort of fantasy, that Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of revolution, come true.
Q: So you had a realistic sense that, even though you liked these ideas, that you knew they wouldn’t really work?
A: Right… [There were some] who were puzzled why they didn’t see Marx’s predictions come true, and weren’t interested in the role of psychology or false consciousness in preventing a revolution from happening. I was a card-carrying Marxist, but I was more of an east coast, Cornell University Marxist at that time.
Q: But Obama thought it was practical. He thought it could happen in America?
A: Oh, yeah! He thought I was a little reactionary… or insensitive to the coming needs of the revolution! He was full-bore, 100% into that very, kind of simple-minded Marxist revolutionary framework.
There’s lots more, Doug Ross has the rest…