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A critical unauthorized biography of Senator Barack H. Obama is all the more urgent today because nothing competent in this line has been forthcoming so far. Auto-biographical literature about the candidate is rather plentiful, Obama is a word-monger.
Description
The 2008 campaign has been remarkable for having had the great merit of focusing attention on the issue of class, elitism, and oligarchy, with Obama furnishing the obvious villain on the elitist side. This book is a product of the anti-oligarchical or American school of historical writing. The analysis is conducted from the standpoint of the New Deal tradition. Class consciousness, as used here means first of all the method exemplified by Plato in his Republic, above all awareness of the abuses of the one (tyranny), the few (oligarchy), and the many (mob rule or ochlocracy). Our world is generally a world of oligarchy, which is now threatening to pass through an interlude of mob rule and then into tyranny. This book is also based on the class analysis of Machiavelli's Discourses, which is infinitely superior to that of Marx. In Machiavelli's terms, the Obama campaign is a project of the nobility (gentiluomini) and the urban bankers (ottimati or patrizi, in Britain as well as the US) to mobilize the city mob, especially excitable youth (plebe) against the middle class (popolo), under extreme crisis conditions. This book is also founded on the experience of the Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal, as the most recent successful historical model in how to organize the American people to deal with a world economic depression.
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