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==Political influences and path==

==Political influences and path==

An only child, Buttigieg had always been close with his  father, Joseph Buttigieg, a University of Notre Dame professor who passed away in 2019.  The senior Buttigieg had a profound impact on "Mayor Pete." <ref>https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26867874/joseph-buttigieg-pete-buttigieg-father/</ref> Joseph Buttigieg supported an revised version of Marxism that dispensed with some of the more doctrinaire theories of  Marx and Engel's, yet he was clearly Marxist. “Equity, environmental consciousness, and racial justice are surely some of the ingredients of a healthy Marxism" he wrote.  According to Paul Kengor,  Grove City College professor  and expert in communism and progressivism,  Buttigieg was among a group of leftist professors who focused on injecting Marxism into the wider culture.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto</ref>  

An only child, Buttigieg had always been close with his  father, Joseph Buttigieg, a University of Notre Dame professor who passed away in 2019.  The senior Buttigieg had a profound impact on "Mayor Pete." <ref>https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26867874/joseph-buttigieg-pete-buttigieg-father/</ref> Joseph Buttigieg supported an revised version of Marxism that dispensed with some of the more doctrinaire theories of  Marx and Engel's, yet he was clearly Marxist. “Equity, environmental consciousness, and racial justice are surely some of the ingredients of a healthy Marxism" he wrote.  According to Paul Kengor,  Grove City College professor  and expert in communism and progressivism,  Buttigieg was among a group of leftist professors who focused on injecting Marxism into the wider culture.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto</ref>  

The senior Buttigieg wrote that he found Marx's description of emancipation as the eradication of humans' alienation from each other and  their  alienation  from  their  own  productive  and  creative  activity  to be compelling.    And that to  reach  this  ''kind  of  freedom'',  "the  many  forms  of  oppressive structural relations must be confronted  and altered and, just as important, the constitution  of  social  agents  cannot  be limited  to the liberal  language  of  rights."<ref>Is the struggle for human rights a struggle for emancipation? Neve Gordon, Jacinda Swanson,  & Joseph A. Buttigieg, Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society, 12 January 2013 [http://www.bgu.ac.il/~ngordon/Marx%20Article.pdf]</ref>

The senior Buttigieg wrote that he found Marx's description of emancipation as the eradication of humans' alienation from each other and  their  alienation  from  their  own  productive  and  creative  activity  to be "compelling."   And that to  reach  this  ''kind  of  freedom'',  "the  many  forms  of  oppressive structural relations must be confronted  and altered and, just as important, the constitution  of  social  agents  cannot  be limited  to the liberal  language  of  rights."<ref>Is the struggle for human rights a struggle for emancipation? Neve Gordon, Jacinda Swanson,  & Joseph A. Buttigieg, Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society, 12 January 2013 [http://www.bgu.ac.il/~ngordon/Marx%20Article.pdf]</ref>

In high school, he began thinking about running for political office, and he became senior-class president, valedictorian, and president of the school’s chapter of Amnesty International, where he objected to the group’s focus on “Ay-rabs.” Later, Buttigieg wrote an essay commending the courage of then-congressman [[Bernie Sanders]].  Being invited to the JFK library, he met Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] who offered him an internship. Buttigieg was accepted to Harvard University where he became the student president at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. The (very liberal) ''New Yorker'' described this role  as being “sought by the most ambitious of the exceptionally ambitious.”  Buttigieg succeeded retired senator David Pryor (one of Bill Clinton’s key political mentors) whom he thanked for providing “the political education we really needed.”  Buttigieg wrote a regular column for the ''Harvard Crimson'', in one of which raved about rap star [[Eminem]] who was ‘dumping it on White America,’ building a new narrative — aggressively American, abused, angry and alarming.  

In high school, Peter Buttigieg began thinking about running for political office, and he became senior-class president, valedictorian, and president of the school’s chapter of Amnesty International, where he objected to the group’s focus on “Ay-rabs.” Later, Buttigieg wrote an essay commending the courage of then-congressman [[Bernie Sanders]].  Being invited to the JFK library, he met Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] who offered him an internship. Buttigieg was accepted to Harvard University where he became the student president at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. The (very liberal) ''New Yorker'' described this role  as being “sought by the most ambitious of the exceptionally ambitious.”  Buttigieg succeeded retired senator David Pryor (one of Bill Clinton’s key political mentors) whom he thanked for providing “the political education we really needed.”  Buttigieg wrote a regular column for the ''Harvard Crimson'', in one of which raved about rap star [[Eminem]] who was ‘dumping it on White America,’ building a new narrative — aggressively American, abused, angry and alarming.  

Buttigieg obtained a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] which enabled him to enter Oxford, where he says he found that supply and demand cannot be expected to deliver fair prices or efficient outcomes in many situations. Buttigieg graduated with the highest grade possible.   

Buttigieg obtained a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] which enabled him to enter Oxford, where he says he found that supply and demand cannot be expected to deliver fair prices or efficient outcomes in many situations. Buttigieg graduated with the highest grade possible.