His family on both sides are Commies and, as he pointed out in his ghostwritten "Dreams of my Father," he deliberately sought out Marxist teachers in college.
Communism is his gut religion. He probably can't conceive of doing anything else.
He’s a Marxist in the way that anti-imperialist African dictators were Marxists or his dad was. He sees it as a justifiable tool, but just one tool in his box of world-righting redistribution of wealth and power.
This certainly is in keeping with his penchant for lying as a mean to an end. Got to the presidency with it and has not abandoned it as his foremost strategy as president.
Yes, but he has a bigger chip on his shoulder than just Marxist ideology. To him communism/socialism is just a tool. If he could reverse the wealth in this country, leaving intact economic disparity but taking from those who now have it and giving it to those who now don't, I believe he would. It's not about equality. It's about payback, and this article and the hypothesis upon which it is based goes a long way in explaining why Obama is so consumed with ‘payback’.