The Peronist in the White House
“Obama is a Marxist,” Mark Levin, my favorite talk-show host, proclaims. Levin is probably the smartest guy on radio. But when it comes to Obama, even this smart guy doesn’t quite get it.
Obama is not a Marxist. He is a fascist of the left, a Peronist. And that is not an academic hair split. To understand this distinction is to understand what Obama is and why he is so dangerous.
Since the seating of the Estates General on the eve of the French Revolution, the terms right and left have been synonymous with the social basis of politics, the idea that generally there is a relationship between one’s place in the class system and one’s allegiance to a political party.
But what if the extremes of politics could be further partitioned according to their social base? The distinguished political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset took fascism and divided into right, left, and center, depending on from which social elements a fascist party drew its support.
The Peronists became the fascists of the left, and the Nazis became the fascists of the middle class.
Lipset’s insight was marred in one regard. He ignored the role of the political periphery, the non-participants, in Hitler’s surge to power. Hitler’s fascism was more of the left than the center, more of the dispossessed than of those who belonged. Hitler organized “masses not classes,” in the sense that the masses occupied Germany’s social periphery.
As Obama learned, when the “masses” enter the political system, they want to hear a different, more radical, message. Obama’s base is not only the far left; it is also those on the margins of the economy.
Juan Peron had been the Argentine representative to Italy during the period of Mussolini’s fascist regime. Mussolini’s fascism, like Hitler’s, was based on the left, but with in one particular difference. Mussolini pursued a concept of syndicalism, the mobilization of trade unions that were given power in exchange for allegiance to a strong state. Where the Nazis totally took over all competing organizations, Mussolini yielded independence to the unions in exchange for their support, as he had done in his infamous concordat with the Vatican.
Peron was impressed by Italian fascism. After his ascendance to the presidency of Argentina in 1946, he implemented a social revolution based on support from the trade unions and working classes, a form of government modeled after Mussolini’s regime. His popular second wife, Eva (Evita), was an advocate for his reforms. Eva often walked through the streets of Argentina dispensing cash handouts to the poor.
Early in his first term, Peron nationalized the banks and passed out huge Christmas bonuses. He pursued legislation favorable to the unions and when the legislation was resisted, the unions, with Peron’s support, went out on massive and violent strikes, not totally unlike the recent scenes from Wisconsin. The General Conference of Labor (CGT) in the first four years of Peron’s regime went from a membership of 500,000 to two million. Peron’s support for the CGT made Argentina the most highly unionized economy in the world.
Predictably, Peron’s reforms led to a bloated government bureaucracy that drained resources from the private sector. Universal health care and high social security benefits further increased the bureaucracy and monetary liquidity. Pumping money artificially into both social programs and wages caused an inflation rate of 52%, by 1951, coupled with a massive trade deficit — as money chased foreign goods.
As workers’ purchasing power declined because of inflation, the CGT turned on Peron. And Peron retaliated, transforming Argentina into a dictatorship with repression and torture and promulgating intense class warfare. Life reached such a boiling point that when Eva contracted cancer, the political opposition wrote graffiti that praised the disease.
Peron’s nationalization of industry was limited. He was more than willing to incorporate into his regime industrialists who shared his view of “social justice” and were willing to contribute to Eva’s charity, which had a fund equivalent to 1% of GDP. So, too, Obama has had no problem with crony capitalism and the maintenance of corporate welfare.
brilliant analysis of Peron; I wrote on Facebook that I thought you meant Stalinist, but now I see your point of view more cleary. The distinction of Fascism is academic but the real philiosophy behind any Fascismo is anti-Jahudim, as I have come across many of Fascist people in my life and they all hate the Jews without reason, or maybe a wee bit of reason, as the rioting against Jews in the French Revolutionary period was more about the Great House of Rothchild’s support both Napoleon and Wellington at the same time. That to my mind was when Fascism took a political face. How to rid a third world country like USA of Peron again, as he was very hard to be off with in Argentina. Maybe Madonna can help there!
I no longer believe in the concept of “left” and “right.” There are no extremists on both sides, with the center somehow being the position of reason and sanity. You are either for freedom and individual liberty, as espoused by the framers of the Constitution, or or you are in favor of limiting that freedom to whatever degree, as we have been doing so since the time of Woodrow Wilson.
All that said, great essay and I agree with your assessment. And people such as Van Jones and George Soros make this man even more dangerous.
‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are not insignificant distinctions you can cast aside at will. This may come as news to you, but there is actually a large body of philosophical thought that forms the basis for each. You should inform yourself about these differences, and act on them, because it is a matter of life and death.
There is a third element or rail that makes Obama different from both Marxist and Peronists.
Obama understands and used the inherent hatreds of his own race to propel his career. By choice his friends, his wife and his business associates without exception harbor deep hatreds and resentment of America, Caucasians and the Jewish people.
Obama promised these people that he would give them the blood thirst satisfaction that they deserved and have waited centuries for. Today, in spite of the fact that it shatters the promises to his own race Obama is busy setting the stage for the same game using the illegal Hispanics. Wooing 40 – 50 million people makes much more sense than exterminating 5 or 6 million.
The deal breaker for Mr. Obama; his worst possible nightmare is that the members of his own race would wake up and realize that they have been used as pawns in a very sick game by a very sick man. The second segment of this nightmare for Obama is that he assumes that the illegal Hispanics share the same hatreds and lust for revenge that the members of his own race do.
Since Obama took office when is the last time that you saw a happy face on a black person..? Regardless of the gauge or method of measure Obama has both betrayed and failed the members of his own race much more than America, Caucasians and Jews ever did throughout history combined.
When you keep your dog under the porch sometimes it is a good idea to stop kicking it in the face long enough for the animal to come out and enjoy some fresh air.
The question now is, have they; the human beings that Obama has used been punished enough yet or will they allow themselves to be sucker punched into the dirt for another four years?
This has been going on for nearly 50 years. The Democrat/Liberal/Progressive movement have kept blacks essentially enslaved by destroying the family structure and replacing it with the welfare state as parent and G-d, and fomenting the victimhood mentality. They could care less for black Americans except as a voting bloc to be used and discarded. And of course when all their policies fail, they blame fat-cats, corporate America, rich people and (non-existent) institutional racism for preventing it from working. If they stopped listening to the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Cornel West and Spike Lee and turned to people like Shelby Steel and Thomas Sowell… If only.
Re: J.J. Sefton
You are correct, however with the coming of age of Obama they; as an entire race of people were virtually certain that the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow would finally be theirs.
The masks came off before the sun set on Election Day. No more worries, no more pains, no more suffering and no more standing in line or sharing anything with anybody – a new kind of America; magically transformed into a massive blob of government giveaways to those who had been cheated, lied to and persecuted for decades; even centuries.
Obama suckered the black race, then blew them off like no count garbage before they knew what hit them. Now the entire sickening mess is so obvious that there is no one else that they can blame.
Mr. Miller’s article mentioned the danger that Obama presents to our country.
Consider the enormous rage that must be burning just below the surface inside every person of his own race that Obama betrayed and used for his own delight, profit and power.
Have they had enough or will they continue to submit themselves to Obama until there is nothing left of their lives for him to take..?
Indeed Abraham…American blacks & hispanics are like the so called “Palestinians”…. A convenient mob of victims for the Democrat worker’s (aka the government) party to manipulate. Public school textbooks don’t bother to explain that every single murderous dictator used class warfare to deceive & dominate not help the poor.
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I see Obama more as a run-of-the-mill European socialist. His goal has been, and always will be, to turn the United States into a social-welfare state like France. France has a huge bureaucracy, high regular unemployment, enormous government benefits it can’t afford, a small military that can’t even get rid of Gaddafi, very high taxes, and an all-powerful central government (that Federalism stuff is sooooo 18th Century to Obama). This is Obama’s goal and, believe it or not, he’s almost there. Given Obamacare is about to kick in, given the exploding size of the Federal government, given all of the many entitlements that Obama is dishing out, given the nationalization of the auto companies, the banks, and AIG, and given a TRILLION dollar stimulus that only stimulated more debt and only protected some state union jobs, Obama has almost reached his goal of turning us into a European-style welfare state. And lets not even talk about what this did to our national debt.
Time to stop this madness in 2012. We need to get a tough conservative in the White House to start bringing some sanity back to Washington. If not, we WILL go broke, just like those other European welfare states.
I agree. The Peron analysis is very useful but to understand Obama it is enough to consider him a turbo-clone of the Eurocrats.
Excellent article, thank you so much, Mr. Miller, for shedding some light on this very strange person in the White House. It is difficult to understand a person whose values are so outside the norm.
Pretty good take on the Bamster’s probable MO. Still, his Marxist instincts are as undeniable as his Marxist roots.
It’s something of a puzzle that Obama and his minions believe they can still get away with any of this in the long run. The manifest rejection of Obamism last year means that what they have done and will do will be undone early in 2013.
At this point, though, the biggest puzzle of all has to be the silence of people in the dem party in the face of what Obama is doing to them. If I were a card carrying dem, not to mention a dem member of Congress, I would have blown a gasket about this by now.
Nope. Card-carrying Dem Congresscritters were part and parcel. They own this. They blame Obama, too, at times. He didn’t do enough. He didn’t go far enough. He was too weak. Next time, we’ll get it right. Oh, look! A unicorn! It’s all fantasy.
I agree that Obama is not a Marxist, however he uses Marx’s Communist Manifesto, modified by Alinsky to take control. As I see it, this fascist has just about achieved his goal. He ignores congress, and the court.
I predict he will have to be forcibly removed someday, whether he wins re election, or not. If he does win re election in 2012, the America as we knew it is lost.
Excellent Mr. Miller and together with some excellent comments, it makes for a very worthwhile teaching tool. I had to laugh at the comments about France – so true – yet France is so isolationist and scared. From Napolean to the ass-kicking given to the FF Legion in Mexico (Camerone I believe) they have to rewrite history and hide statistics from their own populace in order to maintain the charade. Sound familiar?
The most troubling issue for me is Mr.Obama’s apparent anti-semitism. If what Mr.Miller’s words ring true then this question has now been answered for me. The reality of it just hit home and I fear the worst so to speak – that unless Obama’s heart towards Israel is softened; we will see him continue to support Israel’s enemies. If this be the case, then we’ll suffer the consequences of his decisions. We’ll see what happens at the great U.N. Jew-hating conference this Fall. Lord have mercy.
Obama will not be re-elected.
All those arguments are academic. All ism’s (fascism, communism, socialism, liberalism) are rooted in one fundamental principal COLLECTIVISM , which is controlled by few self appointed elites. Their aim is to gain and stay in power either by dividing societies by any means necessary( gender, class, race age you name it) or brutal force such as Stalin, Hitler or Peron.
Throughout human history every society has been ruled by elites who eventually
not only destroyed their societies also themselves. And Hussein Obama is the
embodiment of the ultimate collectivist elite.
“All ism’s (fascism, communism, socialism, liberalism) are rooted in one fundamental principal COLLECTIVISM”
Actually Atila, you can break it down further still. All isms are just control mechanisms for the real root of the problem; man’s desire to rule over man by force and power. And he has this desire, inherently, because he refuses to submit to God’s plan of government.
And almost all the thinking of every creator of isms, who are followed by their ists can be shown to come from the father of communism and collectivism; Plato. From Adam Weishaupt to Marx and Blanc and beyond, they all espoused the same notions of controlling society by the power of the state. John Ruskin, who was the teacher of Cecil Rhodes; (the originator of The Round Table which spawned the CFR) at Oxford, always carried a copy of Plato’s Republic with him.
I think it’s good that more and more people are realizing that there is something seriously wrong with Obama.
Whether you define him as a pathological narcissist (as I do), or a marxist-socialist, or a fascist-socialist…the key concern is: dealing with him and his disastrous agenda-of-destruction of the USA.
His anti-Americanism, his anti-capitalism, his disdain and contempt for the people and their individual right-to-freedom, are obvious. His focus on tax increases isn’t geared to the mythic rich but to the small independent businessman, who all file as individuals. Obama’s tax increases will destroy the small business sector of the economy and turn them into state dependents. This is his version of slavery.
His disdain for Congress, the voice and will of the people, has been evident from the start. He simply ignores the laws and will of Congress and rules by executive fiat. Congress doesn’t pass his cap and trade? Obama orders his EPA to carry out those acts anyway. Congress doesn’t pass his Dream Act? Obama orders ICE to carry out his orders anyway. His rejection of the laws of the land and the constitution – everything from not securing the borders to not setting up a budget – are indicative of his indifference to our laws.
His agenda of enslaving the people, and that’s the only word to use, by stripping the most productive of their investment money, and giving it to the non-productive for CONSUMER usage rather than investment – means that the nation will be deprived of any investment capacity to continue into the future. After all, if you consume all your seeds…there’s nothing left to use to plant next year’s crop..and that’s what taking investment funds from a population does; it deprives them of the future.
The key focus ought to be – not simply analyzing him, though that is extremely helpful to move people out of the messiah-worship Obama seeks…but, working on getting rid of him. Get Rid Of Him.
And yes, it’s a question and concern – why aren’t regular Democrats, and they DO exist; they aren’t all radical sycophants of Obama…why don’t they see how he is destroying their party and their country…and do something about it?
The Obama Gang has been very careful to prevent newcomers into the party. Unlike the GOP, which is bursting with new young blood – the Democrats have prevented any challengers to the thin-skinned and malicious Obama. That’s disastrous for them. Aren’t there any Democrats with courage? Or are the all, as were so many in the Third Reich – too scared of their privileges to fight our Dictator, Obama?
What is new here?
To what extent is he following in the tradition of Wilson and FDR? I know we can compare Obama to Carter, Nixon, Hoover…Buchanan. But, with all seriousness, what is in our history that is being played out in a new way and what, if anything, is truly revolutionary and radical? Is this the New Left on high, something more? Something else?
Great article, but a small correction should be made. Boeing is not proposing to move to South Carolina, but merely to expand there.
My understanding is that the $2 billion plant is already BUILT. Great timing by the Obama thugs. They keep sending these VERY clear messages.
In the end Mussolini was hung by the heels in Milan, Hitler shot himself and was burned in a pit full of gasoline, Peron was ousted in a humiliating coup, Stalin died in bed, Mao went crazy, and all of these attempts at collectivism failed. Unfortunately not before fundamentally changing and destroying the economies of these nations. Some of them never really recovered, Italy, Argentina, and kept their bureaucracies. Some went to market economies, China. Russia hit a gusher, but their people aren’t much better off.
Meanwhile I think that the dems are very aware of what is going on. I spoke with a lobbyist from DC last week who voted for Obama and is obviously a staunch Dem. He had nothing good to say about the O and noted that even in the rarified air of DC there is a general disdain for Obama and what he is doing. Even some of the leftist elites get it (VDH paraphrased: “even the parasite knows that killing the host is not a good idea”.)
Obama is a giant house of cards about to come crashing down. He will not be re-elected and he and his administration and the dems in general will go down in the worst, most humiliating defeat this country has ever witnessed.
Still they will raise their elitist collectivist snake head again, they always do, but hopefully not for a couple of decades when revised history once again forgets and paves over the past as it always does with the left and new eager empty heads are born with a Utopian dream that will never be.
It is nice to hear that those inside the beltway are no longer enamored with the man. But, when push comes to shove, will they drop their Dem. allegiance and vote for a Republican? Let’s pray they have sense enough to do so before he totally destroys the US.
A very clear and useful article. It could be more so if the author supplied a definition of Fascism that fits Italy, Argentina, and Obama’s administration and policies.
Thanks for considering this.
Respectfully,
Jeff Perren
Mussolini already built a working definition of fascism, one that applies to Italy, Argentina, and to Obama’s apparent goals. See Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” for the history of the idea. Essentially, it’s “socialism within a nation”.
Thanks, Rob. I’ve read LF twice, along with a lot of Mussolini’s writings, and many others. I know what the word means. I was particularly interested in hearing the author’s definition.
By the way, I don’t think you’ve quite captured Goldberg’s (or the correct definition). Yours would include the Soviet Union, Cuba, and many others (though they did try to export it).
For all their unquestioned similarities, there is a distinction between Fascism and Socialism, which the author notes. I believe Rand captured it best. Using shorthand, she said essentially Fascism retains the outward form of capitalism but burdens it with totalitarian control. Even briefer, it allows for de jure ownership of property which is de facto owned by the State.
Thanks again for responding, though.
Respectfully,
Jeff
It is even less nuanced than the article suggests. Barack, as are most politicians, is a collectivist.
It does not matter whether one perceives themself as a Marxist, Fascist, Socialist, Compassionate Conservative or Religious Fundamentalist; it all boils down to a shared philosophy that determines the power and authorities of government. All collectivists believe the interests of the state supersede the natural rights of the individual.
This power can be exploited in any manner of ways, but the final outcome is always the same. All facets of society, socio and economic, are directed by a central planning authority. It represents the antithesis of a constitutional republic based on individual rights limiting government.
I’ve been waiting Mr. Miller’s analogy. Something seemed very familiar about Obama that I had seen years ago when I lived in the Southern Cone at the end of Peron’s return from exile. The difference between now and then is that Obama’s style of governance reflects his Chicago political upbringing, that is, he learned from the Chicago Democrat political machine whereas Peron learned his lessons from Mussolini’s Italy. The results are the same however. Unfortunately Peronismo lives on today in Argentina, like a parasite which keeps its host barely alive but prevents it from reaching its full potential. America is, I hope, smart enough to expel the invader and heal itself. Coincidentally, an area of Buenos Aires is named Nuevo Chicago.
“Don’t cry for me, America….”
A song from the new hit Broadway musical–”OBAMA!”
As closely resembling Peron as Obama does, there are still issues that are not fully explained by this type of socialism. Take for instance his openly obvious bent to allow Islam into our society while attempting to eliminate Christianity. Is he Muslim? I don’t think so – not really. I don’t think he allows any God to rule over him. He is arrogant and stupid enough to believe he can play god. So, Islam is just a tool in his arsenal.
Even worse for America, it is obvious that Obama and his cronies do not understand the devil they are dealing with nor that they cannot control Islam. Either way, it shows his lack of commonsense not to mention intelligence (he needs to pick up a history book and read once in a while). No one “controls” Islam – it controls you. Even letting them get a foot in the door is suicide to a nation. They are the ultimate parasite.
And as others have said, there is also the race issue. Though it is evident that he hates whites with a passion and resents being of mixed race, I don’t believe he really likes blacks either. You cannot miss his disdain for most blacks and it is obvious he finds them useful tools that need masters to keep them in their place. He certainly has enslaved them even deeper under government control.
I think Obama is much more complex and evil than Peron, though they have many of the same characteristics. As we progress through his regime, I think we will see sides of him emerge that are more evil and insidious than we can imagine. He is soul-less and ignorant – a horrendous mix.
Excellent article. And unfortunately there are other examples of similarities with the Peronist tactics, in which union indoctrination begins at a tender age.
http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/06/24/indoctrination-fridays-curriculum-teaches-kindergartners-to-unionize/
I hear the echoes of “Get them while they’re young, Evita, get them while they’re young”.
Excellent analysis. It fits in with Stanley Payne’s, “A History of Fascism, 1914-1945.” Payne pointed out that fascism was the major new ideology of the early 20th century and some other ideologies, like communist movements, later adopted some of its features. These included:
A charismatic leadership principle (incorporated by many regimes from Mussolini to Saddam Hussain);
An ethnicist ideology (notice Obama’s reliance on his Black inheritance, rather than his biracial inheritance);
A political economy of corporatism, rather than communism (his alliances with big businesses like GE);
The philosophical principle of voluntarist activism, unbounded by any philosophical determinism (Alinsky’s tactics, without any particular philosophical focus–this lack of focus accounts for why people can’t quite make out if he’s a fascist or a socialist or what).
Great comments from everyone.
I think Obama’s arrogance and messiah-complex sets up his need to enslave other people. His contempt for the free individual, for debate and dissent, for criticism – are examples of his rejection of freedom for others. His disdain for and acts of ignoring Congressional laws (including acts of war) – are yet another example.
It is instructive to realize that blacks, for example, are as enslaved if not more so, to their ‘Masters’ as they were in the legal era of slavery.
Black people are heavily dependent on their new Master, the government, whom they expect to care for and nurture them during their entire lifetime.
This dependency, nurtured and maintained by the Democrats, who rely on them for a voting base is an insidious and even more evil act of enslavement than open slavery. Why? Because it is hidden, cloaked in the sophism of a ‘caring and nurturing government’ when the reality is that the government keeps them passive and dependent…for their votes. It’s all about Democratic power, not black power.
Obama is a pathological liar; he speaks ‘words’..that have absolutely no reference to objective factual reality. None. He’ll say the most outrageous things – including claims of ‘millions of jobs created’ – when the facts are the opposite. The next day, he’ll tell a different story to a different audience. Obama’s Words have one function: not to refer to reality but to enslave you, to mesmerize you, to make you ‘His’.
His verbal sophistry includes his renaming reality to ‘make reality disappear’. So the war in Libya is not a war, according to Obama, because he redefines was a ‘hostile actions by ground troops’. Heck – what does he think a bomb does on the ground?
He declares that terrorism does not exist because he’s renamed it as ‘man-caused disasters’. ‘Shovel-ready projects’ turn out to be money given to public service unions to keep the unions, who vote-for-Obama, happy. Doctors become evil people who ‘cut off limbs for money’. Arizona state troopers become agents who will ‘pick you up for eating an ice cream cone’. And so on.
Like other mesmerizing leaders, Obama relies on lies, misinformation, emotional manipulation, threats and smears – to control the people.
Again – what are the genuine Democrats going to do about him? Will they allow him to destroy not merely their party but the nation?
Great discussion. Insightful article and comments.
A couple mentioned his “betrayal” of blacks. I thought, “Does obama even have any black friends?” Well, he has a few in key positions. But then, I thought, “Does Obama even have any friends at all?” Well, Rezko, but he’s in jail. And Ayers. Kinda sorta friends. More like fellow travelers. I dunno. Does Obama have bff’s? Any at all?
@20 ETAB “Again – what are the genuine Democrats going to do about him? Will they allow him to destroy not merely their party but the nation?”
The real Democrats are now RINO’s and a plague upon the GOP.
BRAVO!! Here’s the thing, as a person who dwells on the Upper East Side, is married to an extremely wealthy investment banker, and who has the privilege of enjoying privilege, I can see why President Obama wants to help the less fortunate. Banks and corporations hold tight to their money! You have to force their wallets open in order to spread some re-sources. You maroons cry about how the lower 15% gets a few measly hand outs, but how does that effect you? Just be glad those people are not rioting in the street and making everything a big mess!
Banks and corporations hold tight to their money!
What, precisely, do you mean by that? Banks are in business to loan money, but obviously they want a reasonable assurance that they will get it back, with interest. Corporations – like all companies – are in business to make money; they do so by selling goods and services. Neither are in existence to be charitable institutions (although most good banks and corporations do much charitable work). You seem to think, like the President, that companies exist to employ workers.
LovelyEarth – you’ve been ‘outed’ on several threads as someone who parodies the stereotypical leftist. This post is not one of your best…Before, you were the organic food, bike-riding leftist; and now, you are the [charity-attender?] spouse of a banker. Not much of a parody.
Oh, and since social benefits, such as medicare and social security and food stamps and other handouts now take up about 15% of the GDP and govt spending is 40%..then, this leaves little left for investment by the private sector. And the debt-to-GDP ratio is at 95% up from 51% in 1988…hmm, with a major portion being owed, heh, to future as yet-unclaimed pensions. Sure.
Okay, so I can’t enjoy organic foods and my Giant bike, all while being the spouse of a wealthy banker? I also drive you know (or I should say, I’m driven). I own a Mercedes and an Audi. And believe me, these greedy bankers have plenty of cash laying around. You should see some of the spreads at the events I attend in the Hamptons. If they’re not going to give it away, then some of it has to be taken…to be given to those poor people I see when I am driven through Chelsea. It keeps them from rioting. But that’s what you neocons want, right? Violence in the street…………..
Hmm..No. Still not good enough. After all, driving/being driven (heh, you are creating a job!!!)..still leaves a massive carbon footprint and your previous parodies of the left were filled with angst about such toe-prints.
Yes, yes – violence in the streets!
Come on, LovelyEarth, your previous parodies were better. It must be the heat of summer.
And what about Obama? The left luvs, luvs, luvs the Messiah. Don’t you?
“If they’re not going to give it away, then some of it has to be taken…to be given to those poor people I see when I am driven through Chelsea.” LovelyEarth
You’re free (presumably with your husband’s acquiescence) to give as much of your own money to poor people as you please. You have no right to distribute that of others, even when it’s done by your proxies in D.C. It’s not your property. To advocate the forcible taking of one person’s property, even for charity, is to advocate theft.
Pray tell. What is a maroon?!
He is a fascist of the left
Technically speaking, referring to Jerry Pournelle’s excellent article (http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm) on the political axes, fascism is a branch of socialism and, by definition, is on the left. The important feature of socialism is the government control of the (“command”) economy; the debate between the fascists and the Marxists is the nature of that control. Marxists would have the government absorb all production into itself, fascists simply control them through government regulations and presence on the board of directors. (Fascists prefer large companies; easier to control). Looking at President Obama and, particularly, his relationship with GE, he is very much a fascist.
Thanks for an interesting perspective. Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” should be read by anyone trying to understand how we arrived at our present situation. Obama just grabbed the reins of dictatorial power that had been created by every administration since FDR. The creep of elitist government was ‘under the radar’, but it suddenly jumped out at everyone when the myriad of bureaucracies in unison turned against the taxpaying citizens. Why wouldn’t the president have disdain and disrespect for us, when we put vacations ahead of sexual assault by the TSA? Americans are no different from the Germans of the early 1920′s, sheeple who are easily led to submit to such brutality and assault on freedom, in the faux name of ‘safety’. If you look at Rasmussen Polls, blacks still support Obama overwhelmingly.
Why do you think blacks still overwhelmingly support this man? Handouts for some, but surely wouldn’t well-educated blacks and those with small businesses, along with conservative Christians (not liberation theologists) see through him by now? What will it take to break his hold on the race vote?
Few people recall how badly Peron destroyed the Argentine economy.
Argentina was the 12th richest country in the world as recently as 1920, with a per capita income the same as Germany and Canada. Its wealth attracted European immigrants, especially from Italy (whose culture can be seen in Argentina’s architecture), the Ukraine, Russia, the Middle East (former President Carlos Menem is of Syrian heritage) and European Jews (at one time prior to the founding of Israel the capital of Buenos Aires’ current Jewish population was 500,000).
Today, it’s just one more beggar state.
Well, the “fascist” were “fascist of the left”. You commit here a category error.
Mussolini was a editor of a major socialist publication before he hit on “fascism” as a vehicle to power. It was just a dodge. We all know about the Nazis. Think of fascism as incipient socialism at the national or racial level.
Peron too was in the end a Socialist of one stripe or another. One might call him a “Marxism-Peronist” as opposed to a “Marxist-Leninist”. His political party’s name loosely translate to “Social Justice”. One can talk about so-called “third way” social democracy all one wants, but that is really a feint. Either you have property rights, free enterprise and free markets or you do not. In the end , the “Third Way” devolves into Socialism, as its prompters well know. Eventually you run out of other people’s money and must confiscate. The political landscape of This flavor of Marxist always relies on charismatic leaders with ultimate power, be it Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Chavez or Peron. Just like there are no free lunches, there is really no such thing as a “Third way”.
What Obama is is a Marxist-Leninist with a particularly Latin American flavor. More to the point, Obama is really just a figurehead, he in not the central actor. This Communist coup has been in the offing for decades. You can be assured that the core actors in the Democrat Party who pull the strings are indeed hard core Marxists, and Soviet inspiration.
Your distinction between Marxism and “Peronism” is a false dichotomy and of little use.
You really need to understand (and define) Marxism historically and not just ideologically. The Left likes to dodge the reality of the matter by forcing us to use there definitions and then attacking with sophistry and casuistry, but it is the same old leftist game of straw men.
Thank you Mr Miller for putting into words, what otherwise a course of study would take to comprehend. For years I have been trying to understand why I have so much difficulty countering the arguments the left have in support of Obama. Now I get it.
Do you ever get that sinking, helpless feeling when you try to compose your thoughts about what Obama is doing? I got it again while reading your comments. The way I tried to say it in the past was that Obama is doing so much, in so many areas, that most people just can’t follow it, so they don’t try. It makes one’s head spin with dizziness.
But as you so accurately elucidated, he does it in small measured portions, [not]“stares you in the face..as blunt as it is obvious. But…incremental and surreptitious.” so as not to allow much room or time for protestation. It’s practicably defensible when it seems like such a minor issue. The left can then use their favorite argument; “ridicule”, of anyone who complains.
Thanks again.
abe:
thank you for the single most cogent and intelligent analysis of obama’s politics that i have ever read.
and, thanks for the [re-]introduction to seymour martin lipset. i will read his book, (one of many, i suppose), as it looks to me to be very interesting and insightful.
a very good post.
john jay
http://wintersoldier2008/typepad.com
p.s. needless to say, perhaps, but obama takes us down the same road that the persons took argentina, … , the road to ruin. the segue from the peron’s, of course, was decades of military junta.
the junta’s were not led brilliantly led, either in politics or in economic policy.
jjjay
Whatever his reasoning may be, the President is dangerous; opposed to the United States Constitution, determined to repeal it, not directly, but by asserting powers akin to dictatorship. Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, then with a republican form of government, in 1933. A majority of the Reichstag (Germany’s publicly elected legislative body) who were members of the Nationalist Socialist Party(of which Hitler was a member) voted immediately after Hitler was installed in office to enact a law wherein “the Chancellor could legislate by decree”. See how easy it can be!
“Marxism is about ownership. Peronism is about control…”
Abe, give me the name of your bank. I need to know where to deposit the royalties you’ll deserve for my repeating that brilliant definition for the next 2 years.
Marxism is also about control, essentially. By definition, their aim is to get beyond ownership of property — to the extent that ownership becomes meaningless. And the neo-Marxist like the earlier London Fabianists and Gramsci see the python-like potential in controlling while letting the deluded victim believe he owns, if that is what he must think.
And that again, is also the way of the central bankers which have been there from the beginning, in the center of it all.
Fine to see him Obama that way, but today’s neo-Marxists are essentially fascists, at least as a stepping stone. Barack Obama was raised a Marxist, mentored by a Stalinist, argued Leninist revolutionary Marxism while a college student, and was originally promoted in politics by Alice Palmer, another Stalinist and Bill Ayers, a rabid communist.
The trick is to see the enemy for what direction is their heading. There are many flavors of authoritarianism and totalitarianism; there is only one direction from popular sovereignty and liberty.
That is, these people are generally fascist by practice (at least during this term) but essentially Marxist at heart.
And that is also what the Obamunists’ apostle, Saul Alinsky was. He never gave up Marxism; he just encouraged his minions to stop using the C-word, get practical, and has thus been called a “transformational Marxist.” Weathermen such as Ayers and Rudd agreed, in their Prairie Fire publication.
Essentially, that is also what are George Soros, Maurice Strong and other U.N. movers and shakers, the IMF’ers, and many in the historic Rothschild/Schiff complex which funds and in large measure may thus direct them all.
Fascism may be their present practice of convenience, but the visceral rebellion scribed by Marx and Engels is the anthem of their souls.
I have read Abe’s brilliant article and love it. With respect to all the
comments that are intellectual and politically astute, I wish we had Bush back.
He was for America!
If Mark Levin is Abraham Miller’s favorite talk show host, then there is little hope. And the fact that he refers to Levin as intelligent, gives a marked indication of his own.
He really needs to get his facts straight. Peron was a social democrat–which to Levin and his listeners is the same as a fascist. Probablly like Levin, Abraham divides the world politic into three categories: Communists (bad), Fascists (equally bad or worse), and those who believe as he does.
Peron did find some aspect of Mussolini’s regime advantageous–nationalism of some industries. And with it he began a socialist economy–which is distinct, by everyone’s measure, except those of Levin and the like, from Fascism. With this kind of socialism, he significantly improve the employment rate and is still considered a hero in his native land–unlike Hitler and Mussolini, true fascists.
TadCF: Peron is not “considered a hero” in Argentina by any outside of the Left. That is just an outrageous statement. He spent his remaining years in exile, for Pete’s sake. You obviously have not spend much time in Argentina, or if you have, you only move among Leftists.
And his regime did was not “sort of fascist”, as if such a thing were possible. It was fascist along the lines of “Third Way Socialism” of the time, which is t say that it was incipient Socialism. It s laughable that you say that he “did find some aspects of Mussolini regime advantageous”. What a bizarre thing to say. Advantageous to whom? Himself and his cliche? Certainly. It was not advantage to the nation. “Nationalization” is a disaster everywhere it is tried, and it has certainly been ruinous in Latin America and a ghost that haunts it still. Just look at Chavez or Castro.
One of the central problems in Latin America has been the sound and rigorous enforcement of property right.
You sound loke a apologist for Socialism in general and Peronism in particular, and a rather glib and ill-informed one at that. Both were (and are) great evils, and this is true no matter what cant your “teacher” fed you in college.
I suggest engage more in critical thinking nd stop regurgitating propaganda.
I learned a lot reading this article, about Mussolini and Peron. I also have finally been able to understand my ambiguous concept of Obama. Many of his clique are outright Marxists, but I was always puzzled that he was, being as he is an elitiste, not really hard-core, rather an effete, a champaigne socialist. This article puts that puzzlement into perspective.
Obama’s legacy is total failure.
Look at what he’s accomplished while in office; Nothing that has succeeded to bring about the intended consequences.
HIS LACKEYS ARE COMPLETE FOOLS.
Well, we might have more than 40,000,000 and approaching 50,000,000 people on food stamps, more than 14,000,000 people (and likely many more millions if a true accounting were made) are out of work—the older of whom may never find full time jobs again, a reported 40 cents of every federal dollar now spent is borrowed money, Social Security has now gone “unexpectedly” into permanent deficit almost a decade sooner than predicted just two years ago, we have more than a $14 trillion dollar national debt, and bond rating agencies are threatening to lower our Treasuries heretofore always rock solid AAA rating, as mandatory entitlement payments devour more than 63% and soon 100% of our entire Federal budget but, on the brighter side, at least someone is livin’ large and high on the hog, and having a good time.
Obama is closing in on his 80th round of golfing/golf excursion so far, Michelle and daughters are just back from what has been estimated was a trip/vacation to Africa that cost us taxpayers somewhere between $500,000 and $800,000—I guess we can no longer say that they were there to “show the flag to the natives” and, now, Obama and family are jetting off—in one of those enormously expensive and offensive “fat cat” “private jets” i.e. Air Force One, he ranted on about the other day (because somewhere, legions of starving, big-eyed children, dressed in rags, shivering and crying in the night have been deprived of food, clothes, heat and shelter so that the evil “fat cat” $250K capitalist businessman–no doubt he is white and a Republican, has a double chin, a pin-striped suit, a pinky ring, and smokes a Cuban cigar as he sips a hundred year old Brandy–can enjoy his sybaritic lifestyle)–Obama and family are off for yet another posh vacation in Martha’s Vineyard; you might recall that one of last summer’s vacations was also at the Vineyard, at the multimillion dollar estate of an Obama supporter, that vacation was, of course, after Michele’s ten day “vacation” with her court of apparently thousands of friends, assorted entourage/posse members and Secret Service agents—to the exclusive Spanish luxury resort town of Marbella, and dinner with the King of Spain.
The Clinton’s just “accidentally” stole some White House furniture and assorted dishes and silverware when they departed that building, with this crew of avaricious, insatiable parasites, when they are kicked out, they’ll probably steal all the major appliances, the toilets and sinks, and rip the copper pipes and wiring out of the walls.
P.S.—I see I forgot to mention the best part; the over 200 “galas,” “entertainments,” “performances” and “events” that have been held just so far at the White House, one every three days—boy, Obama sure does look good in tux—that have featured $125 per pound “Wagyu” steaks and chefs flown in from overseas, top notch entertainment, and the routine $100 plus bottles of wine—it sure beats foreclosure, sleeping in your car, food stamps, and TV.
Thank you. I will add the 200+ gala events to my ever-growing list of “What is wrong with Obama” (I will verify it before adding- close to 60 on the list now). Hope to share my list with friends who maybe still blinded by his performance.
Bravo! Miller’s adroit distinction between Obama as socialist versus a fascist is right on target. The indicator is the bloated bureaucracy and the use of multiple White House Czars to control private industry. Willing cronies such as Jeff Immelt of GE makes Obama’s fascism easier to implement.
Interesting article, but not quite there.
Obama is a Willing Accomplice to the destruction of America. He is a tool in the destruction of traditional America–our economy, our society, our values, our morals.
Obama is the culmination of a decades-long attempt to destroy American individualism and capitalism.
Begun by Lenin, run by Willi Muenzenberg, the covert influence operation recruited American agents in academia/education, the media, and Hollywood. The KGB ran the covert influence operations.
They created an attitude of elite disdain for normals. Along with the attitude, the operation inserted the hate-America-first message into the transmission belts of American culture.
The attitude and message caught on, but the KGB operators all died. The sponsor (USSR) collapsed. No matter, the message became self-sustaining.
The long-term operation to destroy America caught hold of the country in the 1980s. Full blown Political Correctness (PC) began to take over. All the cultural communicators are now PC-Progressives who hate American values.
The operation reached its high point with Obama’s election. For the first time in history, an anti-American tool was in charge of America. The proof is in the pudding.
For full details: http://www.willingaccomplices.com
Kent Clizbe
http://www.willingaccomplices.com
kent@kentclizbe.com
An excellent, thought provoking article by Professor Miller. Bravo!
Much is written daily trying to describe Obama. Is he a leftist, socialist, Marxist, puppet, nut-ball or pure flake? The search for names and categorizations too often masks, in day-to-day politics, the critical need for action. Thus, Nero fiddled while Rome burned and the Empire was changed forever. We’re faced with that same problem. Arguing — or even just contemplating — how many angels can dance on the head of a pin changes little. If America does not actively take up the challenge to its freedoms soon, the history of what happened will be academic. Worse, that history will be fashioned in the image of those who created it.
Thoughtfulness should not and must not be precluded in this matter; a focus on its cause, however, without the accompanying deeds required to counteract immediately its effect will produce a hollow victory.
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Clever article! As an argentinian, i could say that Peronism has been the cancer of this country for the last 70 years. So you americans have time to remove this guy from the White House before it’s too late.
If America falls in some kind of socialism, i fear for the rest of the world.