Weigel on Marxism - By Stanley Kurtz - The Corner - National Review Online: "Also, the Marxist undercurrent that has always infused “democratic socialism” in America has never entirely disappeared. That is a revealing fact as well. A significant threat to liberty that inheres in even the most reconstructed socialism. This comes out in various ways in Radical-in-Chief. The Marxism question is complicated. Marxism gets transformed and downplayed in modern democratic socialism, but it never goes away. That is the reality of Obama’s socialist community organizing world.What? You haven't read "Radical-in-Chief" yet?
It would be a mistake to make too much of that fact, but also a mistake to deny it. The book does not score cheap points but lays out the reality of modern socialism in all its complexity. The result is scary, but it’s a legitimate concern, based on a fair and nuanced portrait of modern democratic socialism and its place in community organizing, not a bogus invocation of the Gulag."
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