The Canter Family – From Soviet Propaganda, Frank Marshall Davis, David Axelrod and Barack Obama to Cyber Revolutionary

Marc Canter

Cleveland Ohio based software entrepreneur Marc Canter, is a leading light in the computer world and is active in the open source software movement.

Marc Canter founded MacroMind in 1984 which became MacroMedia in 1991. Canter led the team that created the world’s first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world’s leading multimedia platform (Director – which became Flash.)

Marc Canter is currently involved in creating and promulgating open standards for new kinds of micro-content and social networking; including people (PeopleAggregator APIs), media (ourmedia.org and Media RSS), reviews (OpenReviews) and events (OpenEvents.)

Canter is on the board of several startups and sits on many computer industry advisory boards.

He’s a successful businessman, but is a revolutionary socialist at heart.

Not surprising, as Marc Canter comes from a revolutionary family, a family that has helped move the US down the socialist path, through its influence on two pivotal presidential elections – 1964 and 2008.

Marc Canter is the son and grandson of long time Communist Party USA members David Canter and Harry Canter.

David Canter and Harry Canter

Harry Canter was the leader of the Massachusetts Communist Party back in the early 1930s. After being jailed for a year for sedition, Harry Canter took his family, including little David, to the Soviet Union, where they lived for 5 years. Harry Canter worked for Stalin’s dictatorship translating Lenin’s work from Russian into English.

By the 1940s, Harry and David Canter were living Chicago, both as active members of the Communist Party.

Circa 1948, Harry Canter was part of a group which purchased a communist newspaper, the Chicago Star from its owner Frank Marshall Davis, who was about to leave the mainland for Hawaii – where he would later become a mentor to the young Barack Obama.

By 1960, David Canter had teamed up with well known Chicago Communist Party member, LeRoy Wolins.

The pair owned a company called Translation World Publishers, which specialized in publications from and about the Soviet Union. The company soon attracted the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which suspected Canter and Wolins of being conduits for Soviet propaganda.

In a report prepared by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, May and July 1962, entitled “Communist Outlets for the Distribution of Soviet propaganda in the United States,” David Canter was heavily quizzed about payments his company received from the Soviet Union.

After the U.S. Government demanded that Translation World Publishers register as the agent of a foreign power, Canter de-registerd the company.

The Committee went on to find that:

Translation World Publishers was an outlet for the distribution of Soviet propaganda…this publishing house was subsidized by Soviet funds and was created by known Communists to serve the propaganda interests of the U.S.S.R.

In 1963/64, the Soviet Union actively tried to undermine Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, in favor of Democrat Lyndon Johnson. Goldwater lost the election paving the the way for Johnson’s massive expansion of Federal Government power – the “Great Society.”

In their 1989 book, “THE KGB AGAINST THE MAIN ENEMY – How the Soviet Intelligence Service Operates against the United States,” the U.S.’s premier communist researcher Herbert Romerstein and former KGB officer Stanislav Levchenko examined Soviet attempts to blacken Goldwater’s name and other Soviet campaigns of the time:

The false charge that Goldwater was a racist was only one of the smear campaigns used against his candidacy by the Soviets and their surrogates. The American Communists covertly covertly assisted in this “active measures” campaign.

A 1963 booklet claimed that Goldwater was conspiring with the John Birch Society to organize a “putsch,” or violent insurrection, to take over the United States in 1964. The booklet, “Birch Putsch Plans for 1964”, contained no address for the publisher, Domino Publications. The author used the not-veryimaginative pseudonym, “John Smith, as told to Stanhope T. McReady.” There was nothing to tie this publication to the communists until an ad for the book appeared in the pro-communist National Guardian for April 25, 1963, listing the publisher as “Domino Publications, Suite 900, 22 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois.”

This was in fact the address of Translation World Publishers, which was registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as an agent of the Soviet Union. The co-owners, LeRoy Wolins and David S. Canter, were identified by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as members of the Communist Party USA.

In 1965 Domino Publications of Chicago published a pamphlet attacking the NATO multilateral nuclear force (MLF). The pamphlet, by David S. Canter, was titled MLF-Force or Farce? It presented the Soviet arguments against the NATO nuclear defense.

By the late 1960s, David Canter was working as an insurance agent and publishing a small politically oriented Chicago neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices. Canter’s partner and the paper’s editor was Don Rose, a journalist prominent in the Communist Party  front Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights – which was established to help abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

In the mid-1970s, David Canter and his business partner became mentors to a young journalist named David Axelrod.

In his early years as a political consultant, Axelrod, following in the footsteps of his mentor, the political strategist Don Rose, carved out a reputation for himself as a skillful specialist working for local progressive candidates…says Rose. “I think he’s a principled, generally progressive guy… .

Axelrod first met Rose and Canter in the early 1970s while studying political science at the University of Chicago and working as a reporter on the Hyde Park Herald.

Canter and Rose took the young David Axelrod under their wing. They took it upon themselves to “mentor” and “educate… politically,” the young journalist. Don Rose later wrote a reference letter for Axelrod that helped win him the internship at the Chicago Tribune which launched his career.

Don Rose, writing to David Canter’s son Marc Canter, said:

David Axelrod did not work for the Voices at any point. He was a reporter for the HP Herald while attending U of C, appearing on the scene first in 1975, just after the Voices folded–but he was familiar with our paper as a student before he got the Herald job. Your dad and I “mentored” and helped educate him politically in that capacity, which is perhaps why you may recall seeing him hanging around the house. I later wrote a reference letter for him that helped him win an internship at the Tribune, which was the next step in his journalism career.

David Canter also got to work with Barack Obama, possibly through their common involvement in the Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization.

David Canter had become active in the organization in the 1940s and remained involved up to his death in 2004, serving on its board in the early 1980s.

IVI was set up to campaign for endorsed candidates – especially “progressive” candidates, which caused the FBI to investigate the organization.

The government took an interest in IVI as far back as 1944, over quite justified allegations of communist infiltration.

In 1944 the FBI prepared a more extensive intelligence report on an active political group, the Independent Voters of Illinois, apparently because it was the target of Communist “infiltration.” The Independent Voters group was reported to have been formed;

“…for the purpose of developing neighborhood political units to help in the re-election of President Roosevelt and the election of progressive congressmen. Apparently, IVI endorsed or aided democrats for the most part, although it was stated to be “independent.”

Both Barack and Michelle Obama were members of IVI-IPO and the organization endorsed Obama during his 2004 U.S. Senate race.

On the 30th of September 2008, when Barack Obama was looking increasingly likely to win the US presidency, under the able guidance of David Axelrod, Marc Canter wrote in his blog:

My father was an old-time politico in Chicago and one of his old buddies – Don Rose writes a column for a Chicago web site called the ‘Chicago Daily Observer’.

In today’s column he writes that Obama has taken a 50-42 lead in the polls.

I’m saying this in honor of my father who fought for civil rights, against the Vietnam War and would be tickled pink to see what Barack is up to.

I know he’s looking down from wherever he is – and laughing right now.

Marc Canter hasn’t taken the political path of his father and grandfather, but he his still a socialist and a revolutionary, as the second half of this video shows.

The US revolution has been in the making for many decades. If the communists win, when the revolution’s secret  history is written, the Canter family will no doubt get the recognition they deserve.

Trevor Loudon blogs at TrevorLoudon.com, edits the KeyWiki website (an online encyclopedia of the US left) and is the author of a 700 page book on the US President’s communist and Marxist ties: Barack Obama and the Enemies Within.

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  3. For almost 30 first years of my life I lived in the Soviet Union, for the last 19 I’m an American, so, I believe, I know what I’m talking about. In the twentieth century, only in Russia and China, communists have killed over 100 million people! T h i n k about it………… I don’t even mention how many more lives were ruined, etc. I can go on and on on this topic, with lots of details. And after all these man-made horrors (real, prolonged, documented, and all with the best intentions in mind!) to be proud of the communist legacy is akin being proud of belonging to KKK, Nazi, and the likes. It’s mind boggling how seemingly smart people can still be so stupid. Frankly, it’s very depressing…

  4. Trevor Loudon you are a conspiratorial clown show. This article does nothing more than reveal your toxic abhorrence of anything “communist” and that’s the end of the story. What a pathetic attempt at a personal smear based on shoddy ridiculous “research” on the Canter family. You should be ashamed of yourself but I know you’re not. You should realize how misguided and wrong you are but you won’t. All you want is a cheesy headline that will get a few clicks. Pathetic to the core Trevor Loudon. Your theories of Communist take over are not only outdated (the cold war ended long ago genius) they’re laughable. Instead of wasting people’s time and reading energy, couldn’t you find something productive to do with your time like taking a flying leap into the lake?

  5. First I am so very proud that your life seems to surround my family. I am so very proud to have such a great history to call mine. You really should get some of your facts correct but to quote my mother Miriam G. Canter who was also a great person in her own world “I don’t care what they say about you Canter as long as they spell your name right” so for that I say thank you…….

  6. If you follow Marc’s link, he describes how crazy Trevor is, but he never denies being a communist sympathizer or progressive. To the contrary, he states how proud he is of the work is grandfather and father did. No surprise there, as leaves never fall far from the tree. There is no longer any fear on the side of progressives that they will be rebuked by America. They are quite certain that they have enough momentum to create the United Socialist States of America. We need to turn the tide on them this election, then route them out.

  7. You must be confusing me with the Marc Canter who owns Canter’s Deli on Fairfax in West Hollywood. I hear there are gay people there – though they don’t go to Chik-a-fil very often.

    Congrats on your diligent research.

    Did you connect:
    – open dashboard platforms
    – distributed architectures
    – level playing field
    – jobs for normal people

    … together?

    ‘Cause at this point I’mm more of a capitalist then you bank loving, tea swilling, fascist Palin-lovers. Or is Bachmann your idol?

    1. Who says progressive royalty can’t be capitalists? After all, it’s about power isn’t it? Taking power from the many and giving it to but a few? Funny thing about progressives, they always tout that what they are doing is for the collective. Only problem is, they always see themselves as being “in charge of” the collective.

    2. Marc, your website trumpets your “pride” in your relatives roles in the radicals’ campaign to free rightfully convicted murderers Sacco and Vanzetti. Setting aside political misinformation campaigns and embarrassing tantrums thrown for political gain, such as Dukakais’ sleazy pandering to “the memory of S & V” and other killers, analysis by real historians has reached consensus in affirming their guilt.

      They were murderers, turned into heroes by political agents aiming for the violent overthrow of America.

      How do you feel about them now? Will you honor their victims by removing your overstimulated tribute to them from your website? Or is the murder of innocent people OK with you, so long as it is for the right cause? There is not a third choice, so you should choose one.

    3. @Marc Canter (the deli owner, not the Communist)

      Did you connect the transition from Flash to HTML5 before posting your inane commentary?

      Consider that Marc Canter created “jobs for normal people” in the same way the dynastic Pharaohs created jobs for sub-Saharan Africans who built the pyramids.

      If you’ve ever wondered why we’re phasing out Flash, I think it’s pretty clear….

  8. When looking at these anti-American Socialist- Marxists, ie; Obama, Jarret, Axlerod, and their metors, Frank Marshal Davis, the Canters, etc., one has to wonder what would make one think, believe, and actively promote, promulgate, and advance anti-American, anti-US Constitutional liberal socialist-marxist policies against one’s own country of Freedom and Liberty. But that’s what being a communist is all about, lies deception, and advancing the agenda that would lay waste to Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy.. And who suffers, The People- in the name of the people.. That’s the big lie and deception.

    This is the power of indoctrination, whether by family and friends, or by political propagandists at school, work, etc.. that would make a normal person of normal intelligence and common sense, let alone intellectuals, believe that Individual Freedom and Liberty, Free Market Free enterprise Capitalism, private property, the priority and sanctity of the sovereign individual American citizen is put above the govt , via the US Constitution that guarantees our Rights, Freedoms, and Liberties, like Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, the Right to bear arms, etc, in a written documented form of goverance, which is what America is all about and represents- to be bad.. and an all powerful authoritarian socialist-marxist communist govt regime that dictates every aspect of a person life, their families lives, with no Rights, Freedoms, and Liberties whatsoever.. but only to serve the needs of the State, ie; the Govt Regime, and to be persecuted if one does not comply- is good.

    Just to think about their advancement of evil against Good and the Truth, against America and all that it represents- Individual Freedom and Liberty, and worse, their success in indoctrinating the American people to believe their lies, that’s the real tragedy.. For anyone who does not recognize and realize what they are doing to themselves when believing in socialist-marxism, aka communism and it’s propaganda of lies, will suffer from it in ways they will regret for the rest of eternity. Those who are ignorant of the past, and or refuse to acknowledge and accept the past, and the consequences of the past injustices by these anti-Democratic anti-freedom socialist-marxists from Russia and Cuba to China and NK, etc and so on, will suffer the same fate of consequences of that past and present, and that means all us when they take down all of America with them.

    Thank Goodness for the American Patriot, who in the form of the Tea Party, are the only people, and the only thing that is fighting back this tidalwave of tyranny and oppression by the marxists that now run the US govt.. and those in the media who are their willing propagandists and proponent agents of evil against the US Constitution, Freedom, and Liberty in and of America, ie; America itself.

    What will America look and be like in the very near future- Restoration of America as a US Constitutional Republic, or the Obama Socialist-Marxist States of America, will depend entirely on and upon the success or failure of the average American Tea Party Patriot.

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