[Viennacon]

No. National socialism implies that he has a sense of nationalism. Obama’s just a plain, old socialist.

[ClearCase_guy]

If I remember correctly, the big break between Stalin and Trotsky was that Stalin wanted to focus on socialism in one country -- basically he was a national socialist for the USSR. On the other hand, Trotsky was an internationalist and wanted to see revolution everywhere.

In my experience in Cambridge, MA in the 1970s and 1980s, the Trotskyites were the really active leftists. I see Obama as a follower of Trotsky and of Mao. I do think his implemention is basically fascist, but -- as you say -- he is not really a nationalist at all.

[Wonder Warthog]

"No. National socialism implies that he has a sense of nationalism. Obama’s just a plain, old socialist."

Actually, I think Obama is closer to Marxism. BUT....the philsophy that the Democrat party has been implementing in this country for the last half-century is national socialism and not "international" socialism as espoused by Marx/Lenin/.....and all the rest.

[Joe 6-pack]

Agree with you. National Socialism is tinged with a distorted sense of patriotic fervor. Obama is more of an internationalist/globalist.