42 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyObama, by contrast, continues to be so obsessed with this trifling incident that he included it in his
notorious Philadelphia speech on race of March 18, 2008, where he compared the fears of a woman
in late middle age with the violent invectives of the foundation-funded racist provocateur Jeremiah
Wright. When it comes to matters of race, Obama clearly loses all sense of reality and proportions,
and there is no reason to assume that anything whatsoever has changed in this regard.
“FRANK” – MARXIST OR GAY EXISTENTIALIST?
If Frank Marshall David had been a thorough Marxist, that would already have been bad enough.
Karl Marx, as I have shown in Surviving the Cataclysm, was in most respects a kept ideologue of
British intelligence, sponsored by David Urquhardt of the British Foreign Office, with a mission of
fomenting destabilization by pitting workers against industrialists in continental Europe, and with a
secondary task of whipping up sentiment against Russia. Like Mazzini the ultra-nationalist and
Bakunin the hyper-anarchist, Marx the apostle of plebeian revolution was a prong of an ideological
deployment by British intelligence to divide and conquer the main rivals of the British Empire. In
an age when the oppressive dominion of the British Empire, then at the apogee of its power, was the
leading reactionary political fact in the world, Marx chose to ignore that fact almost completely, and
focus almost entirely on the opportunities for conflict that were emerging during the process of
industrialization in the countries the British did not yet completely control. Marx, in other words,
had a permanent blind spot when it came to the mixture of Whig Venetian party aristocrats and
financiers who populated the City of London, and this blind spot lives on in his followers today.
Still, Marx as a serious charlatan does reject Malthus, and does admit that economic science must
face the problem of social reproduction, something that cruder charlatans like Malthus and Adam
Smith are not willing to address. There is every reason to believe that Frank Marshal Davis imbibed
the major negative aspects of Marx without absorbing the minor positive ones.
“Frank” was almost certainly a member of the Communist Party USA. But the quality of his
assimilation of Marxism is quite another matter. The level of Marxist theoretical development in the
CPUSA was notoriously very low. The lack of theory in the old CPUSA was one of the factors that
made it so easy for the FBI to infiltrate it to the point of becoming a majority. Especially when it
came to recruiting in the black community, the CPUSA was infamously opportunistic, always ready
to jettison dialectical materialism when it appeared possible to recruit some new members on the
basis of resistance to white racism. Based on what he says, Frank is not interested in proletarian
internationalism in the struggle against world imperialism. He thinks that white people cannot
understand his experiences as an oppressed black man. He rejects the unity of world history. Frank
has nothing to do with Marxism. He is already a black cultural nationalist, with hardly a veneer of
Marxist phraseology. Frank is more of an existentialist than a Marxist himself.
Immediately after the incident just reported, Obama narrates that he went to visit Frank Marshall
Davis. From Davis, Obama received quantities of whiskey accompanied by a lecture on the
incommunicability of race-based experience to persons on the other side of the color line, namely
Obama’s grandparents, the “white folk.” Frank tells Obama that his grandfather is basically a good
man but that the black experience for Gramps is a book sealed with seven seals: “He can’t know
me,” says the communist Frank, “not the way I know him. Maybe some of these Hawaiians can, or
the Indians on the reservation. They’ve seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated.
But your grandfather will never know what that feels like.” (Dreams 90) Frank concludes: “what
I’m trying to tell you is, your grandma’s right to be scared. She’s at least as right as Stanley is. She
understands that black people have a reason to hate. That’s just how it is. For your sake, I wish it
were otherwise. But it’s not. So you might as well get used to it.” (Dreams 91)