In the book The Case Against Barack Obama shows him as Anti-American. How is Marxism related to the US.

Question

Difference between Communism and Marxism is that Communism aims for a worldwide communist superstate, while Marxism is theory, that seeks to level the playing field. (We pretend to work, while you pretend to pay us.) Many scholars, politicians and thinkers advocate Marxism instead of communism but the end result is the same. Is this why Obama does not advocate Communism as the goal for America?

Answer 1

I don't know what Barack would say about it.

But it is correct that Marxism is a political-economic theory.  According to Marxist theory, Communism will be the end stage of political-economic development.  Under Communism, the State will have withered away.  There will be no government as such.  There will be administrative work, which will be rotated from person to person.  But administrators will not be privileged above other workers; and any ordinary person will be able to perform this work.  

Obviously, Communism has never been established in any country of the world. What we call Communist countries are actually Socialist.  They generally call themselves Socialist.  Communism is their goal, hence the Marxist party is often named the Communist Party.  But the government has not withered away by any stretch of the imagination.  It has taken over the major means of production and socialized them.  Socialism, in Marxist theory, is seen as a stage in the development toward Communism.

Now, there is classical Marxism as envisioned by Marx himself.  Then there are various offshoots of Marxism, which take a somewhat different approach to political-economic development.  It is clear to me that Obama has strong Marxist aspects to his ideology, as evidenced by his desire to socialize various aspects of our economic system.  However, his approach seems to have been influenced by racial politics as well.  Any true Marxist, of course, will believe in racial equality.  But classical Marxists see racial inequalities as part of the class struggle, not primarily a racial issue.  Some of the people who have strongly influenced Barack see race as a more fundamental issue than class issues; it isn't clear to me how much Barack agrees with them.  

In short, I'm pretty sure Barack isn't a classical Marxist, though he certainly is Marxist in much of his thought.  I have to assume that he has read enough Marxist literature to understand this; as anybody running for president has to have at least a decent understanding of Marxism.