The moar I read the Alice Palmer document I posted lb, you need to add it to notables baker and everybody has to read it.
Committees of Correspondence leader Manning Marable, writing in the December 2008 issue of the British Trotskyite journal Socialist Review, explained Obama's relationship to the Chicago left:
What makes Obama different is
that he has also been a community
organizer. He has read left literat
ure, including my works, and he
understands what socialism is. A lot
of the people workin
g with him are,
indeed, socialists with backgrounds
in the Communist Party or as
independent Marxists. There are a lot
of people like that in Chicago who
have worked with him for years…