Dan Margolis is the leader of the Communist Party of America in New York. The President of the United States does not exactly call himself a communist, but the communist party certainly thinks of him as one of their own. This is from an email from Dan Margolis to supporters of the Communist Party:
Today is the 4th of July, so I can’t help but to think of the historical importance of the events that took place in this part of our nation, as well as the rest of the American revolutionary tradition. I hope that you will pause, as I am doing, to reflect on our shared history, a history of struggle for what is just.
The American Revolution, though incomplete at first, was one of what Vladimir Lenin called some 100 years ago the three “truly great” revolutions in world history: The American, the French and the Russian. The Revolution established the first democratic republic.
It wasn’t complete at first, but its importance can’t be overstated, and it laid the basis for further struggles: the Civil War and end to slavery, the fight for women’s rights, the formation of the Communist Party, the formation of the labor movement and the CIO, the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s, the fight against fascism in the 30s and 40s, the fight against U.S. aggression in Vietnam, Korea and Iraq, the continued fight for immigrant rights, to name a few things, all continue the spirit of 1776.
The 2008 election of Barack Obama, and now his presidency, are perhaps the biggest continuation of that spirit in a generation.
Now what spirit is that again? Americans for Limited Government puts it this way:
The fact is, with every passing day and new program, the “Change” that’s sweeping the nation looks more like the Bolshevik, than the American Revolution. George Washington’s admonition that government “is dangerous servant and a fearful master” seems to have been supplanted by Marx’s Big Government mantra “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
And that leaves the American people with a dilemma: they either stand up for freedom and liberty or as Mr. Margolis says in his folksy July 4th salute to his troops “take a moment to relax and celebrate with family and friends all that we’ve achieved so far—and all the victories to come up to and including a socialist USA.”
No wonder the economic policies have been ineffective lately. Central planning and market manipulation by an elite few on the one hand and productivity and economic growth on the other are like oil and water -they just don’t go together. To restore us to prosperity we will have to abandon dabbling with “communist solutions”. Shouldn’t the president distance himself from the communists?
