Liberals and Democrats rightly put forward that the distinction between them and the radical left is that they are not proponents of class warfare; that is to say that the average Liberal or Democrat is not interested in taking the wealth of the “elites” (by force if necessary) and giving it to the state who would in theory then redistribute it to the working class. Of course part of their lack of support for this type of Communist thought is that it attacks them as much as anyone else, as many Liberals and Democrats are in fact fairly well off.

Those who want class warfare tend to be the children of privilege, angry teens and college-aged radicals who fall under the sway of this or that “revolutionary” or movement. These young Marxists’ ideas are often more based in their desire to hurt their well-to-do parents then any real desire to have their bank accounts emptied, or their childhood homes seized. Thus the “class war not oil war” crowd is easy to dismiss, by those on both the right and the left, as a relatively small group of unhappy protest groupies who could just as easily have joined a cult as become anarchists or communists.

So it is a surprise to everyone when an op-ed piece extolling class warfare appears in a major daily like The Boston Globe. Author Robert Kuttner seems gleeful at the prospect of tax hikes, wealth redistribution, and impeachment hearings. But his leftist fantasies about life under a Democratic majority seem closer to life under the Green Rainbow party then Harold Ford’s America. I’m sure there are Kos posters who even now are calling Kuttner a plant, a right wing troll who’s trying to send undecided voters to the right with his pseudo-Marxist vision of society.

They’d be half right, because his editorial will swing some to the Republican side, but he’s not a plant, he’s part of a growing base of supporters who are less J.F.K. and more Stalin. The Democrats, poised to gain a majority for the first time in years, are faced with the problem of what to do with the seething mass of Marxists, anti-Semites, eco-terrorists, conspiracy theorists, and Jihad apologists that have been useful to them while in the minority, but are now going to be a thorn in their side. If Dem’s take over, and Bush isn’t thrown in jail, the military brought home from Iraq and immediately set off to confiscate private property, Sharia law not given legal standing in American courts and the C.I.A. not disbanded for “their role” in 9-11, then the new majority will face a revolution in their backyard.

The rich Democrats who finance the movement would do well to read Kuttner’s piece.