The communists within

The Oct. 2 "One Nation Working Together" rally in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Tides Center, demonstrates in no uncertain terms that communism is alive and well in the 21st century. You could have counted more communists there than in Moscow's Red Square!

The Tides Center, according to Robert Chandler in "Shadow World," is the legal firewall partner of the Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation, in turn, receives millions of dollars from George Soros, which it passes on to progressive causes such as the Center for American Progress and Media Matters for America.

The rally involved over 400 leftist organizations that had gathered and enlisted their followers to protest the tea-party movement, political conservatives, the religious right, Christianity in general and anyone else who leans to the right of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

The rally was a call for "economic equality" and "social justice." Both expressions drip with socialist/communist implications. Al Sharpton, one of the rally's key figures, defines social justice and its goals plainly: "We won't have true 'social justice' until everyone is equal in everybody's house." His ideological position sounds a lot like communism.

The endorsers of the "One Nation" rally were the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party USA, the International Socialist Organization (founded by Karl Marx), the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (a breakaway from the Communist Party USA), International ANSWER, Pax Christi, Sojourners, Code Pink, Progressive Democrats for America, the AFL-CIO (which has opened its leadership positions to Communists), the NEA, the American Federation of Teachers, SEIU, the National Action Network (headed by Al Sharpton), the Midwest Academy (established by the Students for a Democratic Society), Institute for Policy Studies, National Organization for Women and others.

TRENDING: Man exonerated of murder charges after serving 20 years of 2 life sentences

Rally attendees cheered speakers such as Van Jones, who has publicly admitted to being a Communist. He was involved with the San Francisco-area revolutionary movement STORM, which has Marxist roots, and is currently the green czar for the Center for American Progress, a George Soros project headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.

Harry Belafonte was also cheered in spite of his known support for Communist Fidel Castro. First Things Online (Oct. 2, 2010) reported that "Castro-supporting actor Harry Belafonte lashed out at the 'insidious' tea-party movement today at the leftist One Nation rally."

Rev. Jim Wallis and his Sojourners organization also graced the Red rally. Wallis, the one-time Students for Democratic Society leader, is now the evangelical "useful idiot" who continues to defend communists and socialists and who has called anti-communist evangelicals "members of the forces of darkness."

The ultimate expose on the radical nature of our 44th president: "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and other Anti-American Extremists." The best-seller as an audio book is also available.

Wallis said this about America's defeat in Vietnam: "I don't know how else to express the quiet emotion that rushed through me when the news reports showed that the United States had finally been defeated in Vietnam." But he offered no criticism about the Communist genocide that followed the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia.

The "progressive" evangelicals who continue to endorse Wallis are an interesting lot. Bill Hybels, pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, endorsed Wallis' 2008 "The Great Awakening" by saying, "Progressive and centrist evangelicals are one stirring away from a real awakening. We are interested in the poor, in racial reconciliation, in global poverty and AIDS, in the plight of women in the developing world. What Wallis has been talking about is coming to fruition."

Joel C. Hunter, senior pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed, praised Wallis' book with these words: "Wallis is one of the great moral voices of our time. In this book is a path to our spiritual maturity and our country's moral progress."

Glen R. Palmberg, Evangelical Covenant Church, insists that "Jim Wallis is giving voice and leadership to a segment of the evangelical community long ignored by the mainstream media. His insights resonate with evangelicals who have felt unrepresented by the religious right."

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, comments, "Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time."

And Tony Campolo of Eastern University says that Wallis "is one of the most important voices in Christendom ... who synthesizes spiritual renewal with progressive social change."

Progressive Wallis has referred to Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev as "a man open to reason." This about a man who deployed SS-20s, invaded Afghanistan and repressed Andrei Sakharov! Following Brezhnev's death, Wallis called a progressive prayer meeting to ask God for forgiveness for "anti-communism"!

Wallis has played a role in nearly every Latin American country (12 at the present time) that has gone communist. Why don't evangelicals see that Wallis is a staunch apostle and defender of communism?

He is also leading the pack of progressive evangelicals in the socialist fight against global warming/climate change/climate disruption.

President Obama's own "Organizing for America" publicized and participated in the capital's Red rally. Barack Obama is himself a radical Fabian socialist with a revolutionary bias! Marvin Olasky, editor of World magazine, describes Obama as "a Marxist-Christian syncretist, blending elements of the incompatible." Sean Hannity describes Obama as "an actual Marxist in the White House." And Andrew C. McCarthy describes Obama as "a neocommunist."

This is why Obama and his 30 or more Marxist czars who are running the country stand in agreement with those like Harry Belafonte and Jim Wallis and the other enthusiastic attendees at the "One Nation Working Together" rally who see Fidel Castro as a hero! The Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Progressive Democrats of America also look upon Castro's Cuba as the wave of the future (even though none of them would travel to Cuba for their personal health care).

Stanislav Mishin notes in the former Communist newspaper Pravda this dire warning: "The American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed." Are we listening? Do we care?

David A. Noebel is president of Summit Ministries.