Dr. Paul Kengor gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation on how communism is antithetical to the principles of the American Founding and the American regime. He explored some of the reasons the appeal of communism seems to be growing in the United States.
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Books by Paul Kengor:
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism
Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, the Untold Story of Barak Obama’s Mentor
From the book: Obama’s college classmate John Drew: “Obama was already an ardent Marxist when I met him in the fall of 1980. I know it’s incendiary to say this, but Obama was basically a Marxist-Leninist.”
“. . . At the time I met him — this was probably around Christmastime in 1980, because I had flown out during Christmas break from Cornell, where I was doing my graduate work — young 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.… I was kind of more [in] the Frankfurt School of Marxism at the time. I felt like I was doing Obama a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and [our friends] were hoping for was really kind of a pipedream…. I was still a card-carrying Marxist, but I was kind of a more advanced, East Coast, Cornell University Marxist, I think, at the time. [Obama] kind of thought I was, you know, a little reactionary… like I was kind of insensitive to the needs of the coming revolution. [Obama] was full-bore, 100% into that simpleminded Marxist, revolutionary mental framework.”
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