David Axelrod is a long-time friend of President Barack Obama. He successfully managed Obama’s 2008 and 2012 Election campaigns and currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the President.
Like the President himself, Axelrod came out of the orbit of the Communist Party USA.
Axelrod was born in New York in 1955 to leftist parents Joseph Axelrod and Myril Bennett Axelrod.
In the 1940s, Myril Axelrod wrote for a left leaning New York magazine, PM. Though not officially a communist publication, several Marxists (including Labor Editor Leo Huberman) and Communist Party USA members worked on the paper.
Former Communist Eugene Lyons, writing in The Red Decade:
The Stalinist Penetration of America, noted that PM’s staff included a former editor of the Daily Worker, former editor of The Communist, a leader of the Young Communist League USA, a Soviet government official and a former staff cartoonist for the Daily Worker, the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA.
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