Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists

On page 207 of “The Manchurian President” the author Aaron Kline quotes an article by Andrew C. McCarthy of the National Review Online about Barack Obama and his devotion to the teachings of Saul Alinsky.
“…Alinskyits are fifth-column radicals. That keeps them politically viable while they radically transform society. For those who don’t understand all the nuances of the modern US Communist movement this book is required reading. The book really takes off in Chapter 4, when it begins to discuss in detail Obama’s adoption of Saul Alinsky-type tactics, and his outright affiliation to socialist and communist PAC’s and communal organizing non-profits. After reading, “The Manchurian President”, you may still wonder how America could have possibly elected BHO, but you won’t wonder why he acts like a marxist through his public policy.

The term political system refers to a recognized set of procedures for implementing and obtaining the goals of a group.

Each society must have a political system in order to maintain recognized procedures for allocating valued resources. In political scientist Harold Lasswell’s (1936) terms, politics is who gets what, when, and how. Thus, like religion and the family, a political system is a cultural universal; it is a social institution found in every society.

We will focus on government and politics within the United States as well as other industrialized nations and preindustrial societies. In their study of politics and political systems, sociologists are concerned with social interactions among individuals and groups and their impact on the larger political order. From a sociological perspective, therefore, a fundamental question is: how do a nation’s social conditions affect its day-to-day political and governmental life?

The Road to Serfdom

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First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. In April 1945, Reader’s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book’s origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek’s thought.  Hayek argues that the pursuit of socialist ideals leads to totalitarianism.