David Axelrod’s Communist Past Comes to Light

David Axelrod’s Communist Past Comes to Light

March 4, 2012
By Lonely Conservative

Stacy McCain has a preview of a Paul Kengor article in this month’s print edition of the American Spectator documenting the communist ties of President Obama’s top political operative, David Axelrod. Two key figures in Axelrod’s past are known communists David Canter and Don Rose who acted as mentors to Axelrod during the early years of his career.

Rose and Canter played a critical role as “mentors” to young David Alexrod, Kengor explains, citing numerous sources including David Canter’s son Marc Canter for the fact that it was a letter of recommendation from Don Rose that helped Axelrod land a job as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. By 1987, all three of these men — Don Rose, David Canter and David Axelrod, who had left journalism to become a paid political adviser — were part of the campaign to re-elect Harold Washington as Chicago’s mayor.

Kengor’s American Spectator article is important because Axelrod’s background — like Obama’s associations with such left-wing figures as Frank Marshall Davis and Bill Ayers — shows how ideas, policies and rhetoric originating in Marxist-Leninist doctrine and anti-American propaganda have been “mainstreamed” into Democratic Party politics.

Critics of Kengor’s investigative report will likely raise the charge of ”McCarthyism,” expect5ing us to miss the irony of that accusation because, of course, revelations from the Venona papers and other sources have largely vindicated Sen. Joseph McCarthy: There wereSoviet agents in the U.S. government, and the American Communist Party was at all times an instrument of Soviet subversion.

What strikes me, in Kengor’s extensive account of Axelrod’s background (the article is more than 5,000 words long), is the remarkable degree to which Americans seem to have lost their horror of Communism in the post-Cold War era.

Be sure to read the whole thing. I doubt the perception of communism is going to change as long as the left controls the schools. Not only do they fail to teach the horrific history of communism, Marxism’s tenets are routinely finding their way into lesson plans.