Old Friend Reveals: Obama Was A Marxist Revolutionary
(AmericanThinker.com) My first meeting with young Barack Obama raised strong
feelings and left me with a positive first impression. At the time, I felt
I'd persuaded a young man anticipating a Marxist-Leninist revolution to
appreciate the more practical alternative of conventional politics as a
channel for his socialist views.
| I met Obama in December of 1980, a couple of days after Christmas, in Portola Valley -- a small town near Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. I was a 23 year old second-year graduate student in Cornell's Government Department, and had flown to California to visit a 21 year old girlfriend, Caroline Boss. |
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Boss was a senior at Occidental College, where she had taken a class in the fall
of 1980 with political theorist Roger Boesche. She met and befriended Obama in
that class. I had been an angry Marxist revolutionary during my undergraduate career at Occidental College. During my hyperactive sophomore year, in the fall of 1976, I founded the Marxist-Socialist group on campus and named it the Political Awareness Fellowship. As I recall, I developed this innocuous sounding name because there were so few students on campus as radical as I, and I was fearful of turning off moderate students who might be willing to learn more about Marxist theory. Whatever impact our encounter might have had on him, I know something about what Barack Obama believed in 1980. At that time, the future president was a doctrinaire Marxist revolutionary, although perhaps -- for the first time -- considering conventional politics as a more practical road to socialism. Knowing this, I think I have a responsibility to place on the public record my account of this incident from our president's past. |
