The red diaper baby

I’ve written before about how Stanley and Madelyn Dunham chose a progressive high school in Washington State for their daughter Stanley Ann, a fact that provides some background for her instant gravitation to and conception of a child by a black African socialist within a few weeks of her starting college at age 17 at the University of Honolulu. But there’s much more to the Dunhams’ leftwing ideological and social environment, as revealed by Andrew Walden in an eye-opening article at American Thinker. For one thing, the chairman of Stanley Ann’s school was an admitted Communist. For another, it was grandpa Stanley—a leftwing sicko, as we know from his brutal treatment of his wife after the panhandler incident—who, as soon as the nine year old Barry had moved back to Hawaii from Indonesia, introduced his grandson to his future mentor, the black Communist Frank Marshall Davis. In his autobiography, Obama speaks of sitting at a bar with pornographic pictures on the wall behind it, while grandpa and Davis chatted at a nearby table.

A main theme of Walden’s article is the interface between Communists and blacks. He writes:

CPUSA archivist Gerald Horne explains the mold into which young Barack was cast by his mother, grandparents, and Frank Marshall Davis:

In his best selling memoir “Dreams of my Father,” the author (Obama) speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as “Frank” as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anticommunist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation ….

The hunger for recruits has given the CPUSA a black fetish—both literally and figuratively. And this fetish has in turn shaped the Communist view of society and of politics.

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Robert B. writes:

The author at American Thinker wrote:

“The hunger for recruits has given the CPUSA a black fetish—both literally and figuratively. And this fetish has in turn shaped the Communist view of society and of politics.”

Actually, Karl Marx himself had a fetish with non-whites and blacks in particular. Marx and his immediate followers viewed the black man as the quintessential proletarian. They had been the slaves of non-black Africans for thousands of years. However, by Marx’s time, the whole world was under the control of white men, therefore, in his limited view, whites, rich or poor, were the ultimate oppressors and non-whites the proletarian. Marx actually felt that even working class whites benefited from this colonialism at the expense of the non-whites. Hence the current belief that the white man stole everything that he has from the non-whites.

Thus, from the very beginning, those who believed in Marx believed that the ultimate struggle would be a kind of race war to some extent. I remember that, while reading this in college, how striking it was. And I wondered just how many people had caught on to this and why weren’t more people taking note of it?

We have sown the seeds and now shall reap the whirlwind. They never should have been allowed to stay after manumission. And to make matters worse, we have let greedy businessmen and leftists import even more of these proletarians with which the Left can over throw our culture and ourselves.

But always remember, big business loves command-control economies—they are guaranteed their monopolies. It is the little guy—the gentry, that suffers under their yoke of the elite.

LA replies:

I didn’t know this. My impression was that Marx was white supremacist toward nonwhite races and had little or no regard for them. Or was it only Jews he was against?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 30, 2008 03:09 PM | Send