Never Mind Marxism. Will An Obama Administration Be Totalitarian?: Part II

The Stiletto Blog ^ | September 11, 2009 | The Stiletto

[theothercheek]

Examining President Barack Hussein Obama’s ubiquity – even when your favorite TV show has not been pre-empted yet again by one of his prime time speeches or press conferences, you can still watch his Public Service Announcement (video link) about national service that gets heavy rotation, even on FOX – an unabashedly worshipful article by Jennifer Senior in New York magazine noted: “Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama has hosted fifteen town-hall meetings; appeared in more than 800 images on the White House Flickr photo-stream; and held four prime-time press conferences, the same number held by George W. Bush in his entire presidency.”

To what end? “He’s trying nothing less than to realign American values. … To Obama, educating Americans … means offering them a kind of moral instruction, one that reshapes their ideas about what’s required of them: industry, responsibility, empathy, humility.”

Well, Chairman Mao was also trying to realign Chinese values, and his Red Book exhorted his countrymen to apply Marxist-Leninist theory and ideology to become more industrious (pages 227- 229), responsible (pages 251-266), empathetic (page 296) and humble (pages 288-290).

To enable him to guide China towards what he perceived to be a more enlightened future, Mao created a cult of personality. Is Obama taking a page from Mao’s little Red Book and cultivating and feeding the cultish devotion he needs to radically alter our domestic and national security policies?

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[unkus]

0bama and his masters will take away as much of our freedom as they are allowed to get away with.

[screaminsunshine]

Only if we do not like having our pockets picked and the loot split up between ACORN and SEIU.

[ChrisInAR]

HUH? Marxist or totalitarian? I didn't know there was a difference...you seem to separate the 2 in your title.

[GloriaJane]

Remember when our soldiers went into Iraq? saddam huseein’s had his pictures everywhere.

Well obama and saddam have more in common then just a middle name. obama huseein is a camera mugging self worshiping nut just like saddam huseein was.

I bet obama can’t even walk down the street without checking his own reflection out in every window glass he pass by.

[popdonnelly]

To be honest, that seems to be the model Obama is following.

[fishtank]

“Will An Obama Administration Be Totalitarian?”
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Does the Pope poo in the woods??

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“Yes” for all three questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theothercheek]

Marxism is a subsset of totalitarianism.

[theothercheek]

That’s a sucker bet

[TigersEye]

Be? Is.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Marx & Engels clearly advocated despotism. Here's an excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto":

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production."

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I meant to address my # 8 to you too. I don’t know what went wrong.

[backhoe]

[theothercheek]

This is the stuff of nightmares.