A disadvantagous situation

In the Marx-Engels reader, Robert C. Tucker introduces one of Marx's polemical texts by calling it "an intensely moralistic vision of the coming revolution as capital punishment on a society that deserved to die." Marx and Engels positioned themselves, he says, "firm in their radical opposition to the existing order and their commitment to class struggle as a means of overthrowing it." In 1965, James Baldwin noted that Robert Kennedy said America could have a black President in 40 years. Barack Obama arrived on the political scene in 2004, "during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary, his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his election to the Senate in November." Kennedy was pretty accurate: Obama won the Presidential election in 2008. America has made tremendous strides in race relations over the past fifty years, it would be a shame if we did not prevent the Islamic Republic, who are committing unspeakable atrocities in the name of Islam, from extending their dominance in the Middle East. They ought to be condemned as tyrants; they must be prevented from acting out in order to obliterate humanity. We have come so far and have improved race-relations so much, now it seems that America is faced with, and will be forced to fight, savages that are hungry for the flesh of the civilized Jewish and Christian world. I pray that Marx was not correct is saying that we are doomed to destruction.