19-02-2010, 05:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-02-2010, 05:15 PM by Austin Kelley.)
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is suggesting that President Obama is today a committed socialist, duplicitously pursuing an agenda for a Marxist-Leninist economic agenda?
All the available evidence indicates that this man dances to Wall Street's tune, not labour, not some international communist conspiracy.
These are the talking points for a resurgent and highly reactionary right wing populism in the United States but essentially these kind of "red herrings" provide cover for a corporate agenda to roll back public services, pursue neo-liberal economic agenda, and make corrupt backroom deals such as the bailouts. The propaganda campaign is organized around personalizing their agenda through unfounded assertions that Obama is a "terrorist-sympathizer", a Marxist, a Muslim, a foreigner etc. One gets the sense that latent racism and an unclear sense of class politics fuels the fire.
If there is a real conspiracy afoot here, David Horowitz is part of it, as are Tom Tancredo, Sarah Palin- all front people for the international corporatist conspiracy...
All the available evidence indicates that this man dances to Wall Street's tune, not labour, not some international communist conspiracy.
These are the talking points for a resurgent and highly reactionary right wing populism in the United States but essentially these kind of "red herrings" provide cover for a corporate agenda to roll back public services, pursue neo-liberal economic agenda, and make corrupt backroom deals such as the bailouts. The propaganda campaign is organized around personalizing their agenda through unfounded assertions that Obama is a "terrorist-sympathizer", a Marxist, a Muslim, a foreigner etc. One gets the sense that latent racism and an unclear sense of class politics fuels the fire.
If there is a real conspiracy afoot here, David Horowitz is part of it, as are Tom Tancredo, Sarah Palin- all front people for the international corporatist conspiracy...