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==Background and career==

==Background and career==

{{see also|Long march through the institutions}}

{{see also|Long march through the institutions}}

Buttigieg calls himself an "intellectual" and claims Democrats respect "institutions and rules" and "fairplay." Buttigieg is noted for his use of meaningless [[Marxist dialectic]] double talk and buzz phrases, such as "democratic capitalism" which supposedly sets him apart from [[democratic socialist]]s. Buttigieg has produced such profound platitudes such as "The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue."<ref>https://pjmedia.com/election/huh-mayor-pete-the-shape-of-our-democracy-is-the-issue-that-affects-every-other-issue/</ref>

Buttigieg calls himself an "intellectual" and claims Democrats respect "institutions and rules" and "fairplay." Buttigieg is noted for his use of meaningless [[Marxist dialectic]] double talk and buzz phrases, such as "democratic capitalism" which supposedly sets him apart from [[democratic socialist]]s. Buttigieg has produced such profound platitudes such as "The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue."<ref>https://pjmedia.com/election/huh-mayor-pete-the-shape-of-our-democracy-is-the-issue-that-affects-every-other-issue/</ref>

===Early communist and socialist influence===

===Early communist and socialist influence===

 

Buttigieg's father, a [[communist]], Joseph Buttigieg, joined Notre Dame's faculty as a professor of modern European literature and literary theory in 1980.<ref>Larsen, Emily; Simonson, Joseph (April 2, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto Pete Buttigieg's father was a Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved April 2, 2019.</ref> An only child, Buttigieg had always been close with his father, 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 a 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>

Buttigieg's father, a [[communist]], Joseph Buttigieg, joined Notre Dame's faculty as a professor of modern European literature and literary theory in 1980.<ref>Larsen, Emily; Simonson, Joseph (April 2, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto Pete Buttigieg's father was a Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved April 2, 2019.</ref> An only child, Buttigieg had always been close with his father, 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 a 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>

===Ideological development in early educational years===

===Ideological development in early educational years===