Obama's Communist ties

[_bcspace]

Freedomways has been called “one of the most influential African-American literary and political journals of the 1960s and 1970s.” It began in 1961 and ceased publication in 1986.

During the 25 years it served as a propaganda organ for the CPUSA and Soviet front organizations such as the World Peace Council, Freedomways published articles by such figures as:

■Derrick Bell, one of Barack Obama’s academic mentors and a Harvard professor;
■Martin Luther King, Jr., the slain civil rights leader who turned against the Vietnam War and has been honored with a national memorial in Washington, D.C.;
■John Lewis, a Democratic member of Congress from Georgia and critic of the conservative Tea Party movement; and
■Jesse Jackson, a former aide to King and Democratic candidate for president who has recently been stirring up racial resentment over the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin.

Freedomways grew out of a Soviet campaign, launched after the Russian revolution, to exploit the “Negro question” in the U.S. and manipulate blacks and members of other minority groups for Communist purposes. The goal was a “Soviet America.”

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Freedomways was so extreme that it ran a notice hailing Angela Davis as a “courageous Black woman leader” when she went on trial for murder. Davis, who beat the murder rap, became a prominent CPUSA official and college professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She later started an anti-prison project, Critical Resistance, funded by the Open Society Institute of billionaire George Soros.

Despite his reputation as a moderate, Martin Luther King, Jr. paid tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois, who himself joined the CPUSA in 1961, at an event sponsored by Freedomways in New York City.

Du Bois had said, in joining the party: “Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism — the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute — this is the only way of human life. It is a difficult and hard end to reach, it has and will make mistakes, but today it marches triumphantly on in education and science, in home and food, with increased freedom of thought and deliverance from dogma. In the end communism will triumph. I want to help bring that day.”

“It is time to cease muting the fact that Dr. Du Bois was a genius and chose to be a Communist,” King said, in remarks published in Freedomways magazine. “Our irrational obsessive anti-communism has led us into too many quagmires to be retained as if it were a mode of scientific thinking.”

One of King’s closest advisers was Freedomways editor J.H. O’Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O’Dell, a secret member of the CPUSA who would later join Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH. Another King adviser was New York attorney Stanley Levison, who had been involved in Communist Party financial affairs and was helping to arrange funding of the party by Moscow. He had recommended O’Dell to King.

The Kennedy brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, had warned Martin Luther King, Jr. against associating with communists. He ignored their warnings.

Jesse Jackson, one of King’s aides and considered by some to be King’s successor as the nation’s premier civil rights activist, was hailed by Freedomways as a “nationally known Freedom Fighter” when it ran his 1972 article on “Three Challenges to Organized Labor.”

http://www.worldnewstribune.com/2012/05/07/a-soviet-front-that-exploited-the-black-white-divide-and-the-u-s-leaders-it-published/

[_Buffalo]

I wish he were a communist, I'd vote for him again! Unfortunately he's just another crony capitalist, like Romney. Meh.

[_bcspace]

He's already proven himself to be a Marxist, it's just that it's impossible at the moment to overtly impose that on the USA. His whole political and activist background is littered with Communism:

In 1949, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in baseball, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in opposition to communist manipulation of blacks. He said Robeson’s statement about blacks loving the Soviet Union was “silly” and added, “We can win our fight without the Communists and we don’t want their help.”

But Freedomways, the communists and their fellow-travelers continued to make inroads in the black community.

Other writers for Freedomways included:
■Entertainer Harry Belafonte, a fundraiser for Elizabeth Warren in her Massachusetts Senate race;
■Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP and current member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center;
■Howard Zinn, the leftist “historian” and CPUSA member;
■Rep. John Conyers; and
■Then-Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, described by the publication as being “in the forefront of the New Breed of young Congressmen who are a clear voice for the kind of basic social changes the United States needs.”

The FBI says that Operation SOLO was launched because “America’s growing realization of the penetration of the U.S. government by the Soviets and the subsequent political debate over the role of communism in society became the focus of the day.”It would appear that some of the documents, viewed in light of current events, demonstrate a lasting impact by the Communists on many black leaders, including Obama himself.

[_Drifting]

He's already proven himself to be a Marxist, it's just that it's impossible at the moment to overtly impose that on the USA. His whole political and activist background is littered with Communism:

In 1949, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in baseball, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in opposition to communist manipulation of blacks. He said Robeson’s statement about blacks loving the Soviet Union was “silly” and added, “We can win our fight without the Communists and we don’t want their help.”

But Freedomways, the communists and their fellow-travelers continued to make inroads in the black community.

Other writers for Freedomways included:
■Entertainer Harry Belafonte, a fundraiser for Elizabeth Warren in her Massachusetts Senate race;
■Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP and current member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center;
■Howard Zinn, the leftist “historian” and CPUSA member;
■Rep. John Conyers; and
■Then-Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, described by the publication as being “in the forefront of the New Breed of young Congressmen who are a clear voice for the kind of basic social changes the United States needs.”

The FBI says that Operation SOLO was launched because “America’s growing realization of the penetration of the U.S. government by the Soviets and the subsequent political debate over the role of communism in society became the focus of the day.”It would appear that some of the documents, viewed in light of current events, demonstrate a lasting impact by the Communists on many black leaders, including Obama himself.

What's the difference between communism and the law of consecration?

[_Buffalo]

He's already proven himself to be a Marxist, it's just that it's impossible at the moment to overtly impose that on the USA. His whole political and activist background is littered with Communism:

In 1949, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in baseball, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in opposition to communist manipulation of blacks. He said Robeson’s statement about blacks loving the Soviet Union was “silly” and added, “We can win our fight without the Communists and we don’t want their help.”

But Freedomways, the communists and their fellow-travelers continued to make inroads in the black community.

Other writers for Freedomways included:
■Entertainer Harry Belafonte, a fundraiser for Elizabeth Warren in her Massachusetts Senate race;
■Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP and current member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center;
■Howard Zinn, the leftist “historian” and CPUSA member;
■Rep. John Conyers; and
■Then-Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, described by the publication as being “in the forefront of the New Breed of young Congressmen who are a clear voice for the kind of basic social changes the United States needs.”

The FBI says that Operation SOLO was launched because “America’s growing realization of the penetration of the U.S. government by the Soviets and the subsequent political debate over the role of communism in society became the focus of the day.”It would appear that some of the documents, viewed in light of current events, demonstrate a lasting impact by the Communists on many black leaders, including Obama himself.

We both wish that were true. Unlike you, I'm burdened with an inability to manufacture my own reality.

[_bcspace]

What's the difference between communism and the law of consecration?

Night and day. Communism is an economic system, the LoC is merely a method for helping the poor. Communism has controls on price, production, and allocation of resources. The LoC has none of those. The LoC needs a free market capitalist system in order to function. The LoC does not prevent saving for retirement or future capital expenditure or making a profit. The fundamental principle of the LoC is private property and the free use of it. Equality in Communism means equal portions. Equality in the LoC means that every man's wants and needs have equal merit. Etc. etc.

[_Drifting]

What's the difference between communism and the law of consecration?

Night and day. Communism is an economic system, the LoC is merely a method for helping the poor. Communism has controls on price, production, and allocation of resources. The LoC has none of those. The LoC needs a free market capitalist system in order to function. The LoC does not prevent saving for retirement or future capital expenditure or making a profit. The fundamental principle of the LoC is private property and the free use of it. Equality in Communism means equal portions. Equality in the LoC means that every man's wants and needs have equal merit. Etc. etc.

Thanks for that, although rather than 'Night and Day' it sounds more like 'Night and The Time Period Between Midnight and Five In The Morning'.

[_Eric]

I thought about responding to this thread, and then figured "Why bother?" All bcspace did was to take someone else's ideas and cut and pasted them here as if they were so compelling as to need no other commentary.

So here is my response to bcspace:

[_moksha]

Strange that nobody yet has commented on the connection between Mitt Romney and space aliens, yet there is evidence that Mitt regularly sends messages to a planet in the Kolobian star system.

Can there be any greater unwarranted guilt by association claims? I doubt even those who twist untruths about President Obama could top this one.

[_Albion]

Obama has "already proved himself a Marxist". Where, how.....how did I miss his declaration?