We'd be better off if Obama WAS a Marxist. [View all]

[Ken Burch]

Let's leave discussions of electoral viability out of this. They aren't the point in this thread.

And obviously, he's not(and it was always silly for anybody to ever say that he was).

And let's be clear...I mean a Marxist, not a Marxist-Leninist(the term Stalin invented to turn his bloodsoaked perversion of Marx and Lenin's ideas-not that Lenin was a saint, but he wasn't THAT much of a psycho compared to "Uncle Joe" and his acolytes, although Lenin was to blame for giving Stalin the structural tools needed to carry out his plans)a Marxist being a person who agrees with Marx's original call for a genuinely socialist and genuinely DEMOCRATIC society.

If Obama WAS a Marxist, and had an actual legislative majority in place to carry out his program, we'd have

1)A fuil-employment economy:

2)A properly funded social welfare system for those who did end up needing help(especially children, the elderly, and the physically and mentally challenged)INCLUDING a universal public healthcare program

3)A foreign policy based on peace and reconciliation rather than "defending our 'national interests'&quot which are always simply the interests of the rich)

4)Democratic control of the means of production and democratic workplace management(with co-ops as part of the deal)

5)Access for all to the means of artistic creation and personal self-expression.

6)A media that actually reported the news, rather than simply acting as propagandists for the corporate order.

That's what we'd have if Obama was ACTUALLY a Marxist.

What's not to like?

(And, if he were actually a Muslim, at least we wouldn't have usury...)

Just thought it should be said.