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It;s in his bio...I already posted the link...and here’s MORE...he’s a self avowed marxist:

http://michaelbader.com/articles_politics_and_me.html

Politics and Me

With two books about it under my belt (so to speak), I’ve written more words about sex than about politics. But politics and social change are closest to my heart at the moment, and I hope to redress the imbalance in my word count in the near future.

I was always a lefty. My father was the only liberal in a family and community of racist republicans. My older brother went to U.C. Santa Barbara in 1967 and gave an adoring younger brother regular reports from “the front.’ And I went to Berkeley from 1970 to 1976. ‘Nuff said.

At first, politics for me was all about the New Left, Marxism, and political economy. I was “out-there,” active in various extremist groups, and fully engaged at the same time with the counter-culture. Eventually, with the decline of the New Left, I gave up being active in the public political world and chose a profession—psychology. I never gave up my sentiments or beliefs, but couldn’t figure out how to blend them with my work, since I don’t believe that good therapy should have a political agenda in any way.

But then I started writing for progressive magazines and started to feel less divided within myself. Michael Lerner published me in Tikkun. Don Hazen did the same in Alternet. And, about six years ago, I helped form something called the Institute for Change, sponsored by the Service Employees International Union. The Institute has an interdisciplinary faculty, from shrinks to corporate consultants, to community organizers, to union activists, and we’re all dedicated to the aim of helping unions become more radical, more effective, more politically savvy, and more engaged with their members in order to help spearhead a progressive movement for social change. It’s been a life-changing experience for me. I feel blessed to have been given the opportunity to meet and work with so many extraordinary union leaders and to finally find a setting in which I can express and bring together the clinical, personal, and political passions that have always been inside me. I hope to reflect these experiences in my writings on this website.

Stark raving moonbat!