Weird, just Weird. Marxist-Leninist econ advisor to the White House

When I first saw this story on the web I was a bit sceptical, but now ABC news is carrying it. Apparently Van Jones, President Obama's "Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality" is an actual Marxist-Leninist.

"By August, I was a communist."
Jones and other young activists in 1994 formed a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, rooted in Marxism and Leninsm.

Can anyone imagine the hullabaloo if a Republican had a neo-Nazi in a comparable position? Any position?

"Well, Herr Umlaut is simply the best man in the country for the job. His political views will have no impact on his job as Special Advisor on Middle Eastern policy."

Just what is it that makes Nazis unacceptable but leaves revolutionary Marxist-Leninists socially acceptable? The Nazis murdered what? 6-8 million. The Marxist-Leninists in USSR & China murdered something over 50 million. I guess they were misguided, but their hearts were in the right place. As were their victims, of course: in mass graves, thumbs wired behind their backs.

A revolutionary Marxist-Leninist economics advisor to the White House? Is that just a little bit of a weird decision? Especially for a group which is already condemned by many critics as being full of commies? It just plays into the hands of the critics.

OTOH, maybe they could show they value diversity by hiring Herr Umlaut.