GLENN BECK thinks Bolsheviks are hiding under your bed, America.

In a recent frothing-at-the-mouth monologue about the October 2 "One Nation" march in Washington, D.C., the media pundit could barely contain himself as he took to his "connect-the-dots conspiracy theory magnet board" to draw a direct line from Barack Obama to the NAACP, AFL-CIO and other pro-Democratic Party groups and unions, on down to groups like Code Pink, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Humanist Party and, yes, the International Socialist Organization--the publisher of this Web site, SocialistWorker.org.

It all proves, Beck claims, that Barack Obama really is a secret, radical socialist.

As Beck ranted:

One Nation Working Together--well, who is working together? I have been showing you the groups that endorse and One Nation has all of this information on their Web site. Do not take my word for it. Do your own homework. TiVo and record this and look all these groups up and tell me you want the president saying, "Come join." This is organizing for America. He's urging people to attend. Now, here's a great one. The International Socialist Organization--they say socialism is not only possible, but worth fighting for: "The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialist Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, in the belief that workers themselves, the vast majority of the population, are the only force that can lead a fight to win a socialist society...be brought out from above, but has to be won by the workers themselves." I believe these people, when they say violent or when they say revolution and they talk about Lenin and Trotsky, they mean the fist and force. Now, I'd love to see the president come out and denounce socialism, Marxists, communists, revolutionaries. Once, Mr. President, once--deny Marxism, communism, revolutionaries! Tell us you are against all of this! Marxism is evil, and the only thing it has contributed to in the history of mankind is mass graves. All of these groups, and the president of the United States, want nothing short of fundamental transformation of America. It is not about cleaning up corruption. It is only a beginning--a beginning of a radical, revolutionary Marxist land.

Beck's lunatic ramblings could be easily laughed off--after all, anyone taking a passing glance at SocialistWorker.org knows that the ISO in no way considers Obama a socialist, and views the Democrats as a pro-corporate party that does not deserve the support of working people.

Our organizing for the "One Nation" rally is not about supporting Democrats in November, but about helping build a real alternative for working people. As a SocialistWorker.org editorial recently pointed out:

The rally is obviously timed by its organizers to help get out the vote for the Democrats in November. But with demands for good jobs, equal justice and quality public education for all, it's also a chance for the voices of unionists, community activists and civil rights organizations to take center stage--rather than the voices of reaction and bigotry that have dominated Washington politics with events like Glenn Beck's Tea Party creep show in August. The protest can show the potential to push back against the right's assault--but also for activists to come together and begin organizing for the things we believe in. That will mean building the kind of independent struggles and organizations that can force the bipartisan political establishment--to listen... It's time for our side to take it up a notch--and a lot more besides. Because there are two sides in this fight, and ours needs to be stronger.

But for as much as Beck's "Bolsheviks are coming for you" ramblings deserve ridicule, they also happen to be coming just days after FBI agents raided the homes of antiwar and socialist activists in Minneapolis and Chicago, on a fishing expedition for evidence on trumped up charges of "material support" for terrorism relating to ongoing struggles in Colombia and Palestine.

While Obama's shredding our civil liberties, Beck, apparently, is auditioning for a lead role in McCarthyism 2.0.

Anyone who's interested in reading the truth about where the ISO stands on the issues, however, should read the series "Where We Stand," by SocialistWorker.org columnist Paul D'Amato.