Posted on 06/19/2009 6:48:15 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama's association with the marxists of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)is deep and enduring.
It probably started in the early 1980s (when DSA was founded)and it certainly continues today.
Obama makes an apparent reference to DSA in his 1995 autobiography "Dreams From My Father".
Discussing his time at New York's Columbia University, in the early 80s, Obama reveals that he "went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn.”
For many years, from the early '80s until 2004, Cooper Union was the usual venue of the annual Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC)-almost certainly what Obama was referring to.
Since DSA's formation in 1982 its City University branch has sponsored and organised the Socialist Scholars Conference. SSC (now called Left Forum)regularly features DSA speakers such as Frances Fox Piven, Leo Panitch, Bogdan Denitch, Stanley Aronowitz, Stephen Eric Bronner, Cornel West, Bill Fletcher jnr, Noam Chomsky and Barbara Ehrenreich as well as guests fom the Communist Party, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy&Socialism and other militant groups.
Fast forward to early 1996. Obama addresses a DSA sponsored forum held at Chicago University in early 1996. Later that year Chicago DSA endorses Obama's Illinois State senate run.
Why the forteen year gap? Was there really a long break in Obama/DSA relations?
Apparently not. It seems that DSA made contact with Obama shortly after he returned to Chicago, from his studies at Harvard in 1992.
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Once red, always red.
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