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otto---for what it's worth, i know way more about marxism and marxists than any human being should as a function of my academic background (trust me on this one).
i can tell you, in my capacity as an expert on this area (pm me and i'll run out my credentials if you want), that obama is not a marxist.
the categorization is simply and entirely false.
in a more accurately calibrated scale, he is somewhere center to center-left of the american democratic party.
his policies are a mix of weak social-democratic (by weak i mean only not systematic) and more-or-less traditionally centrist democratic party elements.
the situation made by the previous 30 years of neoliberal domination will require actions that run outside the ideological frame around obama's campaign platform, i think, but that's inevitable.
but there is no way, by any informed, rational standard, that obama is a marxist.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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