Communism and Obama

In recent years we have been hearing a lot about Communism. It occurs to me that there are a number of issues here.

The first is that Communism is obviously wrong. There is no such thing as historical inevitability; orders rise and fall all the time for all sorts of reasons. The businessman is not a thief; he is someone who gets things done. And the problems that Communists seek to redress through class struggle are solved a lot better through social mobility.

Another is that comparing contemporary progressives and President Obama to Communists is also obviously wrong. Contemporary progressives have not built labor camps or invaded other countries. And if President Obama had been a Communist, he would have nationalized the banks and the car industry. Instead he bailed them out; and American capitalism owes a lot to this president.

I have no idea why Communism, which can be refuted in a single paragraph, got as big as it did and got the attention of so many intelligent people. But the fact that the slander of Obama or Progressives as communists got as big as it did can be attributed to bad thinking and lack of correction for lies. We cannot correct the past, but we can correct the errors that are being made in the present. And one of the biggest errors going around these days is comparison of President Obama or contemporary progressives to the Soviets when they have committed none of the atrocities that took place in the Soviet Union and have instead rescued American economy from what would have been a much worse crisis.

Right now Republicans in Congress are engaged in undermining everything that is done by this administration, thinking that the worse they make things the more likely the people are to vote for them in the upcoming election. This behaviour should be exposed for everyone to see. They think that the people are stupid enough to blame the Democrats for what they are doing to America. And leaders who think people to be stupid enough to fall for such things cannot be good for the people.

So that, while Communism is wrong, so is the behavior of contemporary Republicans. Obama, unlike his predecessor, was legitimately elected, and for him to be in power is people's will. He is not a Communist, and he has done a lot for American capitalism. Stop erecting straw men and work on implementing real solutions.