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Campus Watch blog says that with what little media oxygen there has been sucked out by the largely uninformative discussion of Ayers (and his wife and Weather Underground ally, Bernadine Dohrn) -- in which the mantra "unrepentant terrorist" has been a pale substitute for the critical matter of the Ayers' ideology that Obama plainly shares -- much has been missed.  Significantly, that includes another key Obama contact, Mike Klonsky.

Here's what you need to know.  Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology in the American classroom.  Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million.  Obama, moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a "social justice" blog on the official Obama campaign website.

Klonsky's communist pedigree could not be clearer.  His father, Robert Klonsky, was an American communist who was convicted in the mid-Fifties for advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government -- a violation of the Smith Act, anti-communist legislation ultimately gutted by the Supreme Court.  In the Sixties, Klonsky the younger teamed with Ayers, Dohrn, Jones and other young radicals to form the Students for a Democratic Society.  It was out of the SDS that Ayers, Dohrn and Jones helped found the Weatherman terrorist group.

Klonsky took a different path, albeit one that led inexorably to a new partnership with Ayers, which Obama mightily helped underwrite. Upon splitting off from the SDS, Klonsky formed a Maoist organization, first known as the October League, which ultimately became the Communist Party (Marxist Leninist).

Klonsky was CP(ML)'s chairman. He was so highly thought of by Mao's regime that he was among the first Americans invited to visit Communist China. When he was feted there in 1977, a year after Mao's death, the communist leadership hailed Klonsky's party as "reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people."

Klonsky was a regular guest of the Chicoms until 1981, when the relationship soured over the post-Mao leadership's free-market reforms.  (Yes, Klonsky is apparently more committed to communism than China's own Communist Party).  So what was a Leftist radical without platform to do?  Why, what else?  He became an American college professor specializing in education.

After getting his doctorate, Klonsky eventually made his way to Chicago and hooked up with his old SDS comrade (and self-professed "small ‘c' communist") Bill Ayers.  Together, they co-founded the Small Schools Workshop in 1991.  The goal -- as Ayers has repeatedly made clear, most prominently in a 2006 speech before Hugo Chavez at an education forum in Caracas -- is to bring the same Leftist revolution that has always galvanized them into the classroom.

The concept may be called small schools, but Klonsky and Ayers uniquely grasp the force-multiplier effect. In a small class, the teacher preaching the "social justice" gospel that American capitalism is a racist, materialist, imperialist cauldron of injustice can have greater impact on the students he seeks to mold into his conception of the "good citizen" -- and on the teachers he is teaching to be preachers.  Writing trenchantly about how this system of "critical pedagogy" short-changes the basic education needs of disadvantaged children, the City Journal's Sol Stern observes that theorists like Klonsky and Ayers:
  

...nurse a rancorous view of an America in which it is always two minutes to midnight and a knock on the door by the thought police is imminent. The education professors feel themselves anointed to use the nation's K-12 classrooms to resist this oppressive system. Thus … teachers [are urged] not to mince words with children about the evils of the existing social order. They should portray "homelessness as a consequence of the private dealings of landlords, an arms buildup as a consequence of corporate decisions, racial exclusion as a consequence of a private property-holder's choice."

  
In other words, they should turn the little ones into young socialists and critical theorists.

Klonsky himself confirms that this is precisely the goal (italics mine):
  

[S]uccessful social justice education ensures that teachers strike a balance between debating sociopolitical problems that affect children's lives and teaching them academic basics on which they will be tested.  A science teacher can plant an urban garden, allowing students to learn about plant biology, the imbalance in how fresh produce is distributed and how that affects the health of community residents.  An English teacher can explore misogyny or materialism in American culture through the lens of hip-hop lyrics.  Or as Rico Gutstein, a professor of mathematics education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, suggests, a math teacher can run probability simulations using real data to understand the dynamics behind income inequality or racial profiling.  These are "examples of lessons where you can really learn the math basics," he says, "but the purpose of learning the math actually becomes an entree into, and a deeper understanding of, the political ramifications of the issue."

  
When Obama and Ayers collaborated together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) education-reform project, with Obama chairing the board that oversaw funding decisions, CAC underwrote the Klonsky/Ayers Small Schools Workshop with a whopping $1,056,162.  And that's not all.  Nearly another million dollars was steered to the Small Schools Workshop by the Joyce and Woods Funds when Obama sat on their boards.  The grand total comes to $1,968,718.

Furthermore, as education remains one of Obama's core areas of concern -- a fact that should frighten you -- he gave Klonsky a microphone during the campaign.  On the Obama campaign's official website, Klonsky ran a blog for the candidate, as Klonsky put it, on "education politics and teaching for social justice."  He ran it, that is, until blogger Steve Diamond called attention to it back in June.  A that point, the campaign scrubbed the site of all Klonsky traces -- a fitting Stalinesque purge, described by Diamond here (and reminiscent of similar efforts to erase the campaign's false claims about Obama's relationship with ACORN).

Of course, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."  John Stuart Mill called conservatives "the stupid party."  For countless American intellectuals, including many eventual giants of the Right, disdain for bourgeois values led to a ruinous infatuation with the Soviet Union -- the audacity of their hope for perfecting mankind blinding them to the unremitting misery wrought by communist ideology.

In 1951, the legendary liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas insisted that, though communism might be a threat abroad, the movement in this country was a mere "bogeyman" that had been "thoroughly exposed" and "crippled as a political force."  We now know that even as he wrote those words, communists had covertly infiltrated the U.S. government at high levels and that, as a political force, the movement was just getting started. The Klonskys and Ayers were still on the horizon.

Now today's elites, including some prominent conservative intellectuals, thumb their noses once again at the stupid party.  They look longingly at the putatively cerebral Obama, a fit more to their liking even if his politics are, they hope, just a tad wayward.  But the Leftist revolutionaries are under no such illusions.  In Obama, they see the fulfillment of their dreams to remake America.  As Klonsky has explained, "My own support for Obama is … a recognition that the Obama campaign has become a rallying point for young activists and offers hope for rebuilding the civil rights and antiwar coalitions that have potential to become a real critical force in society."

So get ready for Klonsky's "social justice." It's what Barack Obama calls "change."
Michael Klonsky's Small School Workshop
The main stream media needs to research and cover more this Michael Klonsky fellow and his plans for our young kids. The long-time friends of Obama are surfacing everywhere as Czars and elsewhere.  This one, Michael Klonsky and his buddy Bill Ayers, are after re-educating of children age 5-10.

This is Klonsky fellow (and Ayers too) is the hidden person who is behind Obama's plan to speak to the young kids in the schools next week.  It is part of the Small Schools Workshop goals launched with superficially sounding noble motives but really geared to teaching Social Justice and Economic Justice in the education and indoctrination of small kids into Socialism, which Obama worked on with Bill Ayers and Michael Klonsky in Chicago years ago.  Now the have the power of the Presidency and the resources of the government to do it on an even grander scale.  See links below for more on the Obama, Klonsky, Ayers connections and their radical wives too.  They all knew each other well and socialized often in Chicago and worked together helping each others social justice projects.  "Just some folks living in the same neighborhood" ... NOT!  Klonsky and Ayers are both self proclaimed communists of the Maoist school.  Obama was attracted to these people all his life.  Obama is one of them.  Ayers appointed Obama Chairman of the new Chicago Annenberg Foundation.  Obama then steered roughly $2,000,000 in grants to this known and publicly declared devout Maoist Communist, and good friend and fellow traveler, ... Michael Klonsky, on the instruction of Bill Ayers.  Klonsky, Jeffrey Jones, Bernadine Dorhn (now Mrs. Bill Ayers), were leaders of the SDS in Chicago IL in the 60s.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5905

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/another-obama-ayers-klonsky-lenz-nexis/

We need to sound the alarm that Obama and cronies are now coming out of the shadows and are now going to openly and actively go after the indoctrination of our elementary school kids.  It's been in their plans and work for decades.  Re-write the textbooks.  Re-educate the teachers.  Brain-wash the kids into Social Justice socialism.  They want to teach them to serve the "charismatic leader" and not the country.  But instead of that they should be teaching kids the history of the 30's in Europe and national socialism and what pledging of service to the "leader" ultimately leads to.
 

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