Barak Obama certainly has an intellectual tie to communism but I view him as worthy descendent of Benito Mussolini. It is unfortunate that Fascism has become little more then a empty insult wielded by so-called progressives because there is far intellectual content in Fascism then in any Marxist thinking save perhaps Marx himself. Fascism is a collectivist/commutatarian political ideology built around a central organizing myth. I could imagine Mussolini writing a note to Lenin telling him that his class based theory is nothing more then a specific instance of Fascist organization.
Obama’s vision of commutarian society probably is modeled on his constituents living on Chicago’s south side. Being a flexible lad, I think he has adopted the environmental (let’s call it eco-ism) gospel as his central organizing myth with which he can impose his new order on society.
The modern progressive movement is the victim of a post-modern joke. They have fallen victim to the intellectual manipulations of Professor Paul De Man, the late member of the Belgian Nazi Party, and have been conned into conflating Fascist modes of thinking with supposedly pure Marxism. Obama is the result and the mob supporting him knows or cares little about the intellectual origins of their movement.
