If he isn’t a Marxist, then why does he talk like one? He’s always talking about the rich paying “their fair share.” How big is a “fair share?” Let’s compare the words of Karl Marx and Barack Obama.

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

This is one of the main principles of Marxist theory. Obama channels Marx in recent speeches.
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