Marxist agenda in American colleges

[redhen]

Eight years ago I posted a video on the conspiracy forum that purports to show a direct link from German Marxists to the present situation in western universities where "Critical Theory" and "political correctness" is taught (foisted?) such that it restricts free speech to further a political agenda.

Since I did not receive one single reply, here it is again

Never mind the form of the video, where the narrator sits in a comfy chair, smoking a pipe, looking all professorial. Pay attention to the content.

Here's another more recent documentary, ala Michael Moore style (in your face) touring various campuses to examine the state of free speech.

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There is a watch dog called Foundation for individual rights in education (FIRE)

If you examine the cases, or watch the video above where FIRE spokespersons are interviewed, you will discern that the vast majority of them are complaints about "liberal" teachers and university admin staff that have shut down talks, lectures and protests from conservative students that they don't agree with.

I'm not making a argument (yet). I just want to put this out there, see if anyone recognizes some of these patterns of indoctrination, and wants to add something to the discussion this time.

Thanks

p.s. I'm bringing this up again at this time, because I think that this helps explain a lot of the conspiracy theories floating around, where the U.S. government is the source of all evil.

Also, quick summary of the first video (it can get boring); Marxist thinkers in Germany fled that country with the rise of the Nazis. Some went to the U.S.A., where they quickly realized the workers were not going to rise up as they had in Russia and elsewhere. That's when they set their sights on academia, which they targeted (infiltrated) and influenced the gradual slide to the left in many institutions.

Edited January 17, 2013 by redhen

[Space Commander Travis]

Well, since the Capitalist agenda that the Western education system has been pushing relentlessly for decades has patently failed all round, and Marxism as a concept has nothing to do with those governments sucgh as Stalin's USSR and Mao's China that claimed to follow it, perhaps it's time to give something else a chance.

[spartan max2]

havent wacthed your videos yet. But i do know during the cold war many of the intellectual elite in america were pro communist.

[Doc Socks Junior]

Oh, wonderful, the old "Marxism really never got a chance" argument. Well, by that standard, capitalism never got a chance, brilliant.

[Space Commander Travis]

I'm being mildly tongue in Cheek, but surely it must stare everyone in the face that capitalist "Democracy" has joined the long list of failed political systems.

[spartan max2]

I'm being mildly tongue in Cheek, but surely it must stare everyone in the face that capitalist "Democracy" has joined the long list of failed political systems.

Im pretty sure capitalist countires all have higher standards of living then other forms of goverment? so what would you suggest as a alternative?

[Doc Socks Junior]

I'll take a failed political system that didn't kill over 50 million of its own citizens over a failed political system that did.

EDIT: I changed "people" to "its own citizens".

EDIT2: And I completely agree with you, Lord, that Marxism doesn't take into account basic human nature. If everyone was a good person, I'd be all for that way of government.

Edited January 17, 2013 by socrates.junior

[Space Commander Travis]

Im pretty sure capitalist countires all have higher standards of living then other forms of goverment? so what would you suggest as a alternative?

oh no, surely you don't believe all that? A higher standard of living for the whatever small percentage it is that has all the wealth, perhaps. You know how much disparity there is in the capitalist west? And how did they get this higher standard of living? By expploiting first their own cheap labour, and then when that got too costly exploiting even cheaper labour in countries they "outsource" to. Actually I think Marx got it about right diagnosing the flaws with capitalism, but perhaps where he went wrong was that his own system, fine though it may be on paper, depends for success on human nature being different to how it is. Perhaps it's time to abandon belief in "systems" or ideologies at all, and go back to a communitarian, (not to be confused with Communist) way of living. But that's probably a subject for Pholosophy and Psychology, not here,

[Space Commander Travis]

I'll take a failed political system that didn't kill over 50 million of its own citizens over a failed political system that did.

EDIT: I changed "people" to "its own citizens".

That's really the only choice there is, then? Persist with Capitalism and "Democracy" because (all together now, I wonder if Churchll can collect royalties in valhalla), it's the least worst there is? That's all we can hope for, struggle on with a philosophy that's done bugger all for 80% of the world and comprehensively ********ed up the environment because everyone's so apathetic and enfeebled that they just carry on putting up with the "least worst" because it has brought them a Higher standard of living, i.e. a big TV to watch endlessly repeared bilge on?

[spartan max2]

oh no, surely you don't believe all that? A higher standard of living for the whatever small percentage it is that has all the wealth, perhaps. You know how much disparity there is in the capitalist west? And how did they get this higher standard of living? By expploiting first their own cheap labour, and then when that got too costly exploiting even cheaper labour in countries they "outsource" to. Actually I think Marx got it about right diagnosing the flaws with capitalism, but perhaps where he went wrong was that his own system, fine though it may be on paper, depends for success on human nature being different to how it is. Perhaps it's time to abandon belief in "systems" or ideologies at all, and go back to a communitarian, (not to be confused with Communist) way of living. But that's probably a subject for Pholosophy and Psychology, not here,

No a higher standard of living for the adverage person. The common person in africa or asia normally has far less then the common person in america. Hence the higher standard of living. There is a elite group that has a crap load of money but it is like that everywere. Even in communist countrys. Capitalist common people have far more then other goverments common people. hence all the immagrants every year.

Can you describe the differnce between communitarian and communism. Iv never really looked in to communitarian so i dont know.

[Doc Socks Junior]

That's really the only choice there is, then? Persist with Capitalism and "Democracy" because (all together now, I wonder if Churchll can collect royalties in valhalla), it's the least worst there is? That's all we can hope for, struggle on with a philosophy that's done bugger all for 80% of the world and comprehensively ********ed up the environment because everyone's so apathetic and enfeebled that they just carry on putting up with the "least worst" because it has brought them a Higher standard of living, i.e. a big TV to watch endlessly repeared bilge on?

No, not just the least worst. The one that hasn't had millions of people killed. Apparently that isn't a huge deal to you, however. Really though?

Higher standard of living? Check. Not getting killed? Check. I think that would explain why people "struggle on" with capitalism.

[redhen]

Marxism as a concept has nothing to do with those governments sucgh as Stalin's USSR and Mao's China that claimed to follow it,

Well that sounds very familiar. In fact it's the same line that these Marxist professors use in their classrooms. I had a Sociology professor who said the exact same thing in class. Ironically, her parents had fled Communist Poland to come to Canada.

The mass murder carried out by Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and others are not anomalies, they just went by the book, Marx's book where he called for violent revolution. Death, blood, fear, that's all part and parcel of Marxism.

[leokatero]

The common person in africa or asia normally has far less then the common person in america.

[AsteroidX]

Communism/Socialism never died in America.

[redhen]

Three days since my OP; a few people agreeing, and a dispute over Capitalism vs Communism. That's all I got.

I have to conclude then, that either no one is interested in this CT, or everyone already knows.

I'll let David Horowitz have the last word, since he is in a position to know, being a former Marxist.

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