The acolyte in me didn’t want to believe that I was backing a doomed candidate, but my inner political hack didn’t buy the argument either. Marx spoke to the ideal of a world of universal emancipation, and Obama represented the best we could achieve in the short term. It didn’t feel as strange at the time as it might seem now. I considered myself a Marxist-I was going to meet with the important professor to talk about a dissertation I was writing on the Old Moor himself-but I was also an Obama groupie. He was a famous scholar, and I was a first-year grad student. I was waiting outside the important professor’s office when I heard him shout, “Barack Obama will never be president.” It was autumn 2007. A lifetime of studying politics doesn’t guarantee that you’ll understand what’s happening now, and having been right once before isn’t much help either.
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