The Obama campaign bears a remarkable resemblance to a cult of personality. A term coined by Karl Mark is a letter to a German political worker Wilhelm Bloss in a critique of the cult of the individual.
I find it disturbing that the answer that Senator Obama gave to Joe the Plumber is remarkably similar to the following quote from Karl Marx. Although Marx was not the originator of the phrase this is the most famous iteration of it.
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! Karl Marx ‘Critique of the Gotha Program’ (emphasis added)
More disturbing though is the reflexive tendency of the intelligentsia to attack the messenger, rather than the message. It is an ad hominem argument, classic error in logic.
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