John C. Drew, an Occidental College graduate who knew Obama personally in the early 1980s, reports that the young Obama of that period was already an ardent socialist Marxist revolutionary; was highly passionate about Marxist theory; embraced an uncompromising, Marxist socialist ideology; harbored a sincere commitment to Marxist revolutionary thought; and was, in the final analysis, a pure Marxist socialist who sincerely believed a Marxist socialist revolution was coming to turn everything around and to create a new, fairer and more just world.
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