Frank Marshall Davis wrote the book: The Communist.
Obama's mentor was also a well known member of the Communist Party USA.
Shall I go on.......?
socialists often call themselves communists. and some communists believe they are socialists. let me break it down for you.
Marx and Engles codified what is today the backbone of Marxism, the Communist Manifesto.
the Communist manifesto deals with all aspects of the coming worker's revolution including:
radicalizing the lumpen-proletariat (the unter menschen who will be hurled at the barricades in human wave assaults)
radicalizing the proletariat (the "good" marxists who have value to the state, not replaceable peasants)
radicalizing, using and then eliminating the "petty bourgeois" (shopkeepers and smallholders who can finance the revolution before they are "nationalized" by a commissar's pistol to their heads)
eliminating the Bourgeois (dirty evil capitalists. of course they got to die!)
establishing a socialist state as a means to prepare the radicalized populace for de-radicalization (no more revolution for you, time to go back to your drudgery)
stabilizing the socialist state for re-education of the people into the glory of "scientific marxist thought" (you love el presidente! via el presidente!! or go to gulag)
exporting the revolution to non-marxist states (viva la revolucion!)
establishing a socialist bloc of marxist nations to complete the world revolution (we can has our workers paradise now pleeze?)
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profit.
note the worker's paradise never appears. that would result in Communism, the stated goal. but the stated goal is unattainable, so the politbureau establishes a socialist state and leaves it at that. it's a classic bait and switch.
under socialism the state (the politbureau) owns everything and everyone under their control, and directs all activities by decree. this may sound like a fuedal monarchy, but youre so wrong.
please ignre the little man behind the curtain in north korea, and his son and grandson. its SO not moanrchy! they dont have the title of king! they are the Dear leader, the beloved leader and the beloved successor! no kings here! move along.