IV. Apprenticeship with Foundation-Funded Terrorists: Ayers and Dohrn 137advanced in the long march through the institutions, working within the system and achieving
remarkable positions of institutional authority in the process:
‘Today one of the approaches used by these types is the “long march” through the (presumably
“bourgeois”) institutions. (See [a] discussion of it by “Progressives for Obama” supporter, Fidelista
and former SDS leader Carl Davidson.) Of course, the “long march” referred to is that taken by
Mao and the People’s Liberation Army in 1934. Now, Davidson et al. apply the concept to the
tactics of the “left” inside various “reform movements” such as the anti-war movement. Davidson
was one of the organizers of the 2002 anti war rally at which Obama first spoke out against the
war.’ (Steve Diamond, ‘Who “sent” Obama?’ globallabor.blogspot.com, April 22, 2008)
Diamond also notes: ‘Bill Ayers appears to be attempting to lead a similar “long march” in the
education world. Ayers is a vigorous advocate of local control along with a related concept called
“small schools,” most likely because he believes it gives him the potential to build a political base
from which to operate. He has discussed these ideas in speeches and writings on his blog. As he
said in a speech he gave in front of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in late 2006: “Teaching invites
transformations, it urges revolutions small and large. La educación es revolución!” (Steve Diamond,
‘Who “sent” Obama?’ globallabor.blogspot.com, April 22, 2008)
Some of Obama’s friends were openly terrorists and bombers from the incendiary Weatherman
faction, like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Others did not join the Weathermen in their long
years of underground urban guerrilla struggle: here we find such figures as Carl Davidson and
Marilyn Katz. Assorted leaders of various successor organizations to the Black Panthers and/or the
Black Liberation Army will also appear. The common denominator of many of these figures is that
they were seldom the spontaneous radicalized student militants that they pretended to be, but were
generally elements of pollution: police agents, provocateurs, wreckers, sent in to the radical student
left to do a job of sabotage, discrediting, and crippling.
If Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn had been the authentic left-wing proto-fascist anarchists and
bombers they have always claimed to be, they might well have faced an appointment with the gas
chamber or the electric chair, given their implication in criminal conspiracies which led to the
deaths of a significant number of persons, including police officers. Instead, Ayers and Dohrn have
been rewarded and taken care of by some mysterious force through their receipt of prestigious
endowed professorships in which they now have tenure. Was the hand that rewarded Ayers and
Dohrn the same hand which has promoted and fostered the career of Obama? All indications are
that it was, and that it was a hand attached to the left side of the US intelligence establishment.
Right-wing commentators will rail that Ayers and Dohrn, Wright and Obama are authentic
communists seeking to carry out the revolutionary program of Karl Marx. The argument here, by
contrast, is that all of these figures are synthetic frauds who have been deployed to carry out the
program of finance capital, as articulated through certain key parts of the US intelligence
community who have never concealed their close relations with Wall Street. The difference is
highly important. It is the difference between an ignorant right-wing hallucination which deserves
to be mocked and laughed at, and an actual historical philosophical analysis of the systematic
deformation and manipulation of social life by the immense power of an intelligence community
that boasts a legal budget in the neighborhood of $100 billion, which is supplemented by hundreds
of billions more coming from drug-running, gun-running, slave trading, and other nefarious
activities, plus what the foundation endowments contribute. Only if they are understood in this way