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Took your advice and googled [ “Mike Klonski” radical ]. Big fight in wikipedia. Klonksi is apparently defending himself there in the wikipedia discussion section. Now for two research blogs:

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-throws-maoist-hardliner-and.html

Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former best friend of the Weatherman terrorist group founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.

Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism when the SDS broke up and the Weathermen terror group was formed.

Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.

Yesterday, Klonsky was posting a blog on the Obama website:

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But, that was yesterday. [prior to the report]

Today his blog was removed from the Obama website.
Comrade Klonsky is no longer with us.

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Now for Global Labor:

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/06/that-guy-who-lives-in-my-neighborhood.html

However, it must be pointed out that a notorious ally of Bill Ayers for many years, Mike Klonsky, is an open member of the Obama campaign. Klonsky runs a blog on the official Obama website here where he claims to be a “professor of education” (the website of the Small Schools Workshop that he directs says only that he teaches some graduate courses, though it appears he was a visiting professor for one year at Nova Southeastern University in Florida in 2006-07) and says he blogs for Obama on “education politics and teaching for social justice.”

Who is Mike Klonsky? Well, on one level, he might just appear to be a protege of Bill Ayers in the education world. He received, as I detail below, a $175,000 grant from the Ayers/Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop that he and Ayers started in Chicago to push their school reform agenda.

But that is only half the story. Klonsky was one of the most destructive hardline maoists in the SDS in the late 60’s who emerged from SDS to form a pro-Chinese sect called the October League that later became the Beijing-recognized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). As chairman of the party, Klonsky travelled to Beijing itself in 1977 and, literally, toasted the Chinese stalinist leadership who, in turn, “hailed the formation of the CP(ML) as ‘reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people,’ effectively recognizing the group as the all-but-official US Maoist party.” (Elbaum, Revolution in the Air, 228).

I know of no indications that Klonsky has ever expressed any regrets about that activity. Perhaps like his SDS comrade, Ayers, he, too, thinks he did not do enough back then. In my view they did more than enough.

An excellent profile of that maoist milieu is available in a book called Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum, a first hand participant whose sympathy for the maoism of the period does not get in the way of an excellent account of these idiot savants of the left.

How is it possible that someone of Klonsky’s ilk would now be playing a visible role in the Obama campaign itself on such an important issue as education policy - apparently with free reign to push his authoritarian “social justice” agenda?

The answer to that question escapes Darling-Hammond.

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[Goes on about Darling-Hammond, Ayers, and reparations.]

You see, I think the association with Ayers, although it may be a problem, could have an innocent explanation. Ayers and his father are wealthy, and big power players in Chi-town. A young man who wanted to break into local politics could seek out their friendship for entirely non-ideological motives.

But we know that there is much, much more to it because of Bernadine Dohrn, and especially Mike Klonsky.

In the universe of post-1969 subversive radicals, Dohrn is worse than Ayers (dig it) and Klonsky is worse than both.

More info on Klonsky here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072457/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2077522/posts?page=24#24

screen shot of Mike Klonsky's old blog on Obama's website here :

...a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-
led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.

"Small Schools Workshop"
What a nice term for what's probably "communist re-education camps".