We can understand Obama PERFECTLY ... after reading Karl Marx

Obama wants profitable international businesses to come back to the U.S.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how

do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Ronald Reagan

Every time I believe Barack Obama has reached the final level of unbridled hypocrisy, he amazes me by putting forward an idea or utterance that brings the words "unmitigated gall" to an entirely new level.

On Wednesday, January 11, Obama will make a plea to profitable multinational companies which have relocated their manufacturing and production facilities overseas to return to the United States.

This is being done ostensibly as part of his "middle class" doctrine that is championed (no surprise) by organized labor unions.  The White House forum on "Insourcing American Jobs" will attempt to convince the nation that Obama's over-regulation, class warfare and Marxist Doctrine regarding the redistribution of wealth will benefit the hated capitalists in question.

Executives from more than a dozen companies will attend, including padlock maker Master Lock, furniture company Lincolnton Furniture, software application developer GalaxE Solutions, and chemicals company DuPont.

The emphasis on keeping U.S. jobs at home is in line with a populist economic message championed by Obama that could play well with union workers, whose support the Democratic president will need to win re-election in November.

This "Power to the Proletariat" doctrine is not exactly new; it is the brainchild of Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 – 1883), a German philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement.

He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Capital (1867); some of his works were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels.

Marxist ideology was the primary influence for Lenin's Russian Revolution, and has served as the centerpiece for Communist and Socialist movements across the globe.  Marx also apparently serves as the pervasive influence for our "Campaigner and Chief."

As a student of Soviet & Eastern European Studies in my undergraduate days, I was required to read all the collected works of Marx, Engels and Lenin.  While distasteful, it gave me a glimpse into the mindset of the Socialist.

In 1989-1991, when the USSR dissolved, I never thought I would have a practical use for that knowledge again.  Then we elected Barack Obama, and the memories came flooding back into my consciousness.

Just for comparison -- for those who have never been subjected to the socialist/communist ideology of Marx, Engels and Lenin -- I thought it would be enlightening to lay "notable quotes" side by side and search for any common threads.

As you will see, one doesn't need to search very far to recognize the influence Marxist ideology has on the President of the greatest free-market capitalist economy in the world.

I ask you to read the quotes from Marx, Engels and Lenin first.  Then read the quotes from our esteemed leader for some current perspective.

A.  Karl Marx (Wealth)
"A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain."

A.  Barack Obama (Wealth)
"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

“This isn’t about class warfare. This is about the nation’s welfare. It’s about making choices that benefit not just the people who’ve done fantastically well over the last few decades, but that benefits the middle class, and those fighting to get into the middle class, and the economy as a whole.”

"Over the last few decades, the rungs on the ladder of opportunity have grown farther and farther apart, and the middle class has shrunk. A few years after World War II, a child who was born into poverty had a slightly better than 50-50 chance of becoming middle class as an adult. By 1980, that chance had fallen to around 40 percent. And if the trend of rising inequality over the last few decades continues, it’s estimated that a child born today will only have a one-in-three chance of making it to the middle class -- 33 percent."


B.  Karl Marx (Class Struggle)
"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains."

B.  Barack Obama (Class Struggle)
"Inequality also distorts our democracy.  It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the risk of selling out our democracy to the highest bidder."

“For most Americans, the basic bargain that made this country great has eroded.  Long before the recession hit, hard work stopped paying off for too many people. Fewer and fewer of the folks who contributed to the success of our economy actually benefited from that success. Those at the very top grew wealthier from their incomes and their investments -- wealthier than ever before. But everybody else struggled with costs that were growing and paychecks that weren’t -- and too many families found themselves racking up more and more debt just to keep up."


C.  Karl Marx (Religion)
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."

C.  Barack Obama (Religion)
"Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation."


D.  Karl Marx (Opportunity/Contribution)
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

D.  Barack Obama (Opportunity/Contribution)
"I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, and when everyone plays by the same rules.”


E.  Friedrich Engels (Imperialism/Oppression)
"A nation cannot become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. The liberation of Germany cannot therefore take place without the liberation of Poland from German oppression."

E.  Barack Obama (Imperialism/Oppression)
"So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other."


F.  Friedrich Engels (Admiration for Islam)
"The Afghans are a brave, hardy, and independent race; they follow pastoral or agricultural occupations only ... With them, war is an excitement and relief from the monotonous occupation of industrial pursuits."

F.  Barack Obama (Admiration for Islam)
"Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace."

"These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings."

"That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."


In closing, this propaganda-fest on January 11 should be an interesting exercise in unmitigated gall.  I hope you will be able to watch it, and view it through the lens of the great Communist writers listed above.  I hope you then report it throughout social media circles for what it really is.

Furious Muslims riot in China over mosque demolition.

Government says Islam is not an officially recognized religious institution in China.

Muslims aren't happy, but China isn't experiencing Islamic Terrorism.

(Reuters)

Hundreds of Muslims in a northwestern China village trying to prevent the demolition of their mosque clashed with police, causing several deaths, Hong Kong media and residents said on Tuesday.

Fighting between police and members of the largely Muslim Hui ethnic group broke out on Friday in Ningxia region, adjacent to Inner Mongolia province, after authorities declared their newly built mosque illegal, the South China Morning Post said.

Hundreds of residents in Taoshan village confronted police armed with teargas, truncheons and knives, the newspaper said.

A Taoshan resident told Reuters he was away at the time of the clash, but that his relatives in the town believed five people, including one of their relatives, had been killed.

The resident, Jin Haitao, said villagers believed the dead included another two elderly woman, a young man and two people from nearby areas.

Residents of nearby areas complained that telephone links with Taoshan had been cut, making it impossible to verify what had happened.

"They were just trying to hold a religious activity but the authorities would not allow it. They demolished the mosque and now they've covered over the ground, because there was so much blood on the ground," Jin said.

A small business owner in Tongxin, three km (two miles) from the mosque site, told Reuters that the village had been sealed off.

"It's ridiculous, I am a Muslim, and Muslims need a mosque. They are just ordinary people, coming together for religious purposes, not to overthrow Communist Party rule," the man said.

China has experienced sporadic unrest among its Muslim minorities, most notably involving the Uighurs, a Turkic language-speaking people native to the country's western Xinjiang region.

There are about 10 million Hui in China, making them the country's largest Muslim group. In many parts of China, the Hui have blended in with the predominant Han Chinese culture, all but abandoning Islam except for some traditions, such as circumcising male children and avoiding pork.

But ethnic tension has led to some unrest. At least seven people were killed in the central province of Henan in 2004 after a car accident involving an ethnic Han Chinese and a Hui sparked rioting.

In 1993, a cartoon ridiculing Muslims led to police storming a mosque taken over by Hui in northwestern China.

Uighurs in Xinjiang rioted against Han Chinese residents in 2009 and at least 197 people were killed, according to official estimates.

China's ruling Communist Party says it protects freedom of religion, but it maintains a tight grip on religious activities and allows only officially recognized religious institutions to operate.

China makes everything - except progress on religious liberty.

Happy New Year?  48 Christians Arrested On New Year's Day.

Landlords are forbidden to rent meeting space to Churches.

Beijing authorities detained 48 members of a large persecuted house church on New Year's Day, marking a total of more than 1,000 church members who have been taken into police custody during the church's 38 weeks of attempting to hold outdoor worship services.
 
"By arbitrarily detaining peaceful religious believers in the capital city on the first day of 2012, Beijing authorities show that they are determined to continue their crackdown on independent religious groups in the coming year," Bob Fu, president of China Aid, said.

"In defiance of universal values and in violation of its own laws and constitution, which guarantees religious freedom, China's communist leaders are walking further down the road of the wrong side of history," said Fu, a former Beijing house pastor who was imprisoned for his beliefs.

Among those taken into custody Jan. 1, 30 were believed to have been released by 10 p.m. and the remainder were held overnight at various police stations across the city, China Aid said. Many other church members had been kept under house arrest beginning Friday, the watchdog group said.

Shouwang Church began meeting outdoors in April after being evicted from its rented meeting space and after authorities prevented the church from gathering in a portion of an office building it had purchased.
The church tried three times to rent three different venues, but Beijing authorities have ordered landlords not to rent to them, China Aid said. 

Police arrest the Christians before the services even start and typically free them within 24 hours. China's Domestic Security Protection Squad has maintained constant surveillance outside the homes of senior church leaders, while police have camped outside the doors of other church members from Saturday night until noon Sunday, when service times technically are over, according to China Aid.

Compass Direct News Service reported that early on Christmas morning church members arrived at a public square only to find it heavily guarded with industrial-strength rails blocking access. Police arrested 41 believers who attempted to worship at the site that day, Compass said.

On the church's Facebook page, one church member said Christians who were detained indoors usually felt sorry for those waiting outside in the cold as they were able to "read books and have fellowship in a warm room," Compass reported.

The Facebook post explained that the believer was interrogated on Christmas Day with an officer taunting him for being afraid to give his home address and threatening to hold him long enough for the man to lose his job, Compass said.

Despite the ongoing persecution and winter weather, Shouwang Church leaders say they plan to continue meeting outdoors until a solution is reached.