IBD Editorial

When Obama won the Iowa caucuses, Frank Chapman, a member of the U.S. Peace Council Executive Committee, (Communist) wrote a letter to the People’s Weekly World celebrating the victory of Alice Palmer’s (Communist) former protege.

“Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move,” Chapman wrote. “It was a dialectical leap ushering in a new era of struggle. Marx once compared (the) revolutionary new era of struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.”