One of the pillars of Obama’s home church, Trinity United Church of Christ, is “economic parity.” On the website, Trinity claims that God is not pleased with “America’s economic mal-distribution.” Among all of controversial comments by Jeremiah Wright, the idea of massive wealth redistribution is the most alarming. The code language “economic parity” and references to “mal-distribution” is nothing more than channeling the twisted economic views of Karl Marx. Black Liberation theologians have explicitly stated a preference for Marxism as an ethical framework for the black church because Marxist thought is predicated on a system of oppressor class (whites) versus victim class (blacks).
Black Liberation theologians James Cone and Cornel West have worked diligently to embed Marxist thought into the black church since the 1970s. For Cone, Marxism best addressed remedies to the condition of blacks as victims of white oppression. In For My People, Cone explains that “the Christian faith does not possess in its nature the means for analyzing the structure of capitalism. Marxism as a tool of social analysis can disclose the gap between appearance and reality, and thereby help Christians to see how things really are.”
In God of the Oppressed, Cone said that Marx’s chief contribution is “his disclosure of the ideological character of bourgeois thought, indicating the connections between the ‘ruling material force of society’ and the ‘ruling intellectual’ force.” Marx’s thought is useful and attractive to Cone because it allows black theologians to critique racism in America on the basis of power and revolution.
http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology
If you think it’s Marxism, then you have missed the boat. Read Cone’s books. Don’t be willfully ignorant. It’s counter-productive.
God of the Oppressed is Cone’s third book and he talks about dozens of different people in his books. One sentence does not mean the theology is based on Marx. Marxism is hardly the only revolutionary ideology. I don’t believe Marx is even mentioned once in Cone’s first two books. People need to learn how to analyze and think critically. This is really embarrassing that Americans can’t figure this out after three freaking years already. You’re grabbing at a straw. Black Nationalism is worse than Marxism, because it is inherently a genocidal concept. Stop giving Obama a pass with your ignorance.