"The Socialist" -Barack Obama or Francois Holland?

A while back I noted in my blog ( http://radicalrons.blogspot.com/ ) that the aging pop singer Pat Boone accused President Obama in a Fox News interview of being a Marxist because  he does not want anybody to get rich. (link to blog article)

In his Jan.19 letter,  Class Divisions won't help America", Lewis A. Prescott thinks Obama is "once again trying to take us down the road to socialism". The Providence Journal editorial Jan.20 "Mr. Hollande's super tax opus" implies that even a very tamed, housebroken socialist is more than a little dangerous and foolish in high office.

The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was very familiar with all varieties of bourgeois socialism. He would have dismissed France's Hollande as "the ideal socialist leader for successful dentists."  The fate of the assassinated leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende, proves once again that real socialism can only be established by a powerful mass movement of the WORKING class.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the very idea of SOCIALISM has been kept alive by its fanatical ideological opponents. I get a strong dose of anti-socialism any time I turn on Red Eye Radio. Your editorials are more polite: anti-socialism for successful and prosperous used car salesmen.


To: letters@providencejournal.com