Are Academic Elites Communists?

Townhall ^ | 8/15/06 | Walter Williams

[SmoothTalker]

I highly doubt that. I spent a while in academia and got a phd. You find a lot of flaming liberals but I only met one real communist.

[HIDEK6]

Is the Pope German?

[Berlin_Freeper]

"Academic Elites" are too ignorant to be communists.

The academics move from dependency from father and mother into a system of dependency to the education system, all the while never having the nerve, endurance, confidence nor required brain power to achieve a self defined life of moving out on their own and thus they create a shell for themselves that identifies with communist rhetoric but they have never actually lived, achieved, experienced those ideals and so they are like parrots chirping out catch word phrases that they don't have a single clue as to what they really mean and so are ignorant.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Rank nations according to whether they are closer to the capitalism end or the communism end of the economic spectrum. Then rank nations according to human rights protections. Finally, rank nations according to per capita income. Without question, citizens of those nations closer to capitalism enjoy a higher standard of living and a far greater measure of liberty than those in nations closer to communism.


Good points throughout this article!

But notice that, like this little example, the SOCIALISTS who "rank quality of life" ALWAYS put highest weighting to (government-provided) child care, (government-provided) health care, (government-provided) social security, (government-provided) "security" (gun control) , (government-provided) commuting, etc..... (Longevity also gets credit, which is good.)

These people are afraid of, and resent freedom. So, of course, the EU (European socialism) gets a higher standard of living than the US.

[wintertime]

While academic leftists, and I'd include their media allies, are not communists, they are anti-anti-communists.

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So?...Professors are merely anti-anti communists and in complete sympathy with Karl Marx? Huh???....

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck!

And, don't fool yourself thinking that this is only on the college and university level. Our K-12 schools are full of "anti-anti-communist" useful idiots as well.

Suggestion: Homeschool your children and if they go to college, at least spend the least amount of money possible on it.

[Calpernia]

Yes.

There, didn't even have to read the article.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Sort of redundant if you ask me.

[Varda]

I agree. Some words (appropriate though they are) cause people to quit thinking and just react. "Utopian" is a good word because it's in juxtaposition to the reality of human behavior and the real world institutions that are constantly disparaged.

I don't believe the instructor will use the word "feel" in his statements. This course is being given by the philosophy department and most philosophy types are precise in their arguments.

[wintertime]

You find a lot of flaming liberals but I only met one real communist.

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Please define a "flaming liberal". You will find that they are communists. Remember if they are quacking like a communist, they are a communist.

[Sam Cree]

"Are Academic Elites Communists?"

Yes, along with the MSM and a lot of "liberals." You know, the kind of people who hate Bush, but still think Castro is a pretty good guy.

[polymuser]

Wikipedia on The Frankfurt School (later to become Columbia University), IMO the beginning of the state higher education is now in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School

[Mr. Jeeves]

Academic leftists, and their media allies, are in agreement with many of the stated goals of communism, such as equal distribution of wealth, income equality and other goals spelled out in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Leftist elites love the ideas of communism so much that they are either blind to, or tolerant of, its many shortcomings.

Academic leftists always delude themselves into thinking these goals can be achieved by mutual consent of the robber and the robbed - rather than by using a man with a gun from the government as a collection agent.

[Right_Rev]

You Can Trust The Communists (to be Communists)
Dr. Fred C. Schwarz
Download the whole book in Rich Text Format (RTF)

http://www.schwarzreport.org/

"You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists."

Whittaker Chambers, Witness, p. 616

[Right_Rev]

The number of apologists for the former Soviet Union and its mass murderers dwarfs the handful of aberrant pro-Nazi academics in America. Sympathy for the Communist project and distaste for attacking are today fully accepted in American higher education.

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage (2003), p. 13

[untrained skeptic]

"professor of Sovietology"

Professor of Communism - fixed!

I would think that Sovietology would be a more narrow field than Communism in general.

You're correction would seem to be less exact, and Pipes doesn't deny studying Communism extensively, he merely has merely focused on the Soviet Union.

He's also not a communist himself.

[arthurus]

Are Academic Elites Communists?

Does a bear honk in the woods?

[Two-Bits]

What amazes me of these elites is that they believe in distribution of wealth except when it comes down to their own.

[Gone GF]

"Those that can, do.
Those that can't, teach."

So all teachers are at best second-rate? Does that include homeschooling parent teachers?

"Those that can't do or teach, work for the government."

Don't you just hate those do-nothings like Condi Rice and Rumsfeld?

[Starboard]

Academic leftists, and their media allies, are in agreement with many of the stated goals of communism, such as equal distribution of wealth, income equality and other goals...

Academics and media types are wage earners who by and large will never accumlate the wealth and assets that risk takers and business owners do. Smug in their cerebral superiority, they deeply resent industrious, and often less well educated entrepreneurs, who accumulate more than they have. It does not take much of a leap for them to also see those gains as being ill gotten and having resulted from the exploitation of others. Academics and their left wing elitist brethern are not immune from materialistic envy and like the idea of income redistribution. They hate feeling inferior.