P. Boston:

Political power follows the money. In my opinion Obama is more a plutocrat than a Marxist. The end game for all his economic trickery is the establishment of a Guardian Class that will use the coercive power of government to structure a society based on some Progressive, Utopian view of social justice and guardianship of the environment.

This is pretty much a definition of what Socialism is in the practical and historical senses of the word, academic snake-oil to the contrary notwithstanding. Again, “Progressivism” in the modern world is just code for Marxism, socialism be a goal along the path to full communism.

“Plutocrats”, BTW, is a key Marxist concept used its critique of capitalism. American leftists wish to tar all of 19th century America with this smear, generally accompanied by the “robber baron ” slander. But it is profoundly not true.

I do not think that you are a Marxist, but your prose and thought is full of Marxist terms and concepts. Are you aware of that?