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Tearing up the Democrat Party’s early primary campaigning is Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. His experience would seem to make him an unlikely force, but Buttigieg’s campaign says he raised $7 million in the first quarter, putting him near the front of the fundraising pack. What many voters may no know is that Buttigieg, mayor of sleepy South Bend, is the son of an ardent Marxist. Emily Larsen and Joseph Simonson report for The Washington Examiner:
The father of Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of Vladimir Lenin.
Joseph Buttigieg, who died in January at the age of 71, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s from Malta and in 1980 joined the University of Notre Dame faculty, where he taught modern European literature and literary theory. He supported an updated version of Marxism that jettisoned some of Marx and Engel’s more doctrinaire theories, though he was undoubtedly Marxist.
He was an adviser to Rethinking Marxism, an academic journal that published articles “that seek to discuss, elaborate, and/or extend Marxian theory,” and a member of the editorial collective of Boundary 2, a journal of postmodern theory, literature, and culture. He spoke at many Rethinking Marxism conferences and other gatherings of prominent Marxists.
In a 2000 paper for Rethinking Marxism critical of the approach of Human Rights Watch, Buttigieg, along with two other authors, refers to “the Marxist project to which we subscribe.”
In 1998, he wrote in an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education about an event in New York City celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Manifesto. He also participated in the event.
“If The Communist Manifesto was meant to liberate the proletariat, the Manifesto itself in recent years needed liberating from Marxism’s narrow post-Cold War orthodoxies and exclusive cadres. It has been freed,” he wrote.
An affinity for the works of Marx is a resume builder in today’s Democrat Party. For America’s sake, hopefully Pete Buttigieg’s apple fell far from the tree. Read more here.
Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.
