Posted on 01/29/2016 10:48:13 PM PST by Art in Idaho
This isn’t exactly new . . . I graduated with a BA in Economics in 1980 and Marx was assigned in most of my courses, including non-Econ too. Didn’t kill me. Matter of fact, it’s a lot better to read him and dissect him in college anyhow.
Over the long run, shining the sun on him is the best way to defeat him.
I believe economics is religion applied to government, and therefore would want to see how John Locke and Adam Smith, two educators highly influential on our Foundinf Fathers, ought to stack up against Marx and other socialism theorists.
Brooke Fosse Westcott, Bishop of Durham and co-author of the Westcott and Hort Critical Greek Text, was the main theorit of the "Social Gospel" and first president of England's Christian Socialist Party.
I wonder if anyone realizes the some of the most adamant socialists in our country are the ministers of the large Protestant denominations, who constitute and propagate the idea of "liberal elitism."
Of course, Catholicism is at the center of union of church and state, together with its inseparable companion of government control of economics.
Our Founding Fathers were of a different sort of Ptotestantism than that which proceeds out of today's seminaries, very different.
>> Whay What is a more complete list of well-known writers on economics? <<
Boyce and Diprima, are you series?
They wrote about Power, just like Marx. They thought this was la place to fundamentally transform the functions that make our country great. Like Obama, Boyce and Diprima were all about maintaining order, starting with their First Order, but moving on to their Higher Orders and making everything part of their System.
Even if they try for incremental communism with their partial methods, it’s still series, just a trick to heat things up so we can wave goodbye to our values again (or as they put it under Marx/German influence, replace our values with their “eigenvalues”). Just like Obama, they put boundary values at the end of the list to make sure no one would ever get around to the border.
No thanks.
It is that influence that makes truth not a very precious thing to her then, and combined with the born depravity of original sin, not only unalleviated but magnified by the modern moral relativism inculcated by her "religious" training, has yielded the amoral monster that she is today, above and totally disrespectful of any law but her own will, inflicting her will-kill-if-necessary power on unwilling subjects.
That is why I am poinmting out the continuing socialistic effect of the major denominations on the downfall of republican democracy to the socialism that is being boosted throughout our local, county, state, and national governments.
My prayer is that this Free Republic Forum will never yield to that influence.
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Karl Marx was a less than half baked self styled economist. He never had a job, and grubbed off of friends and acquaintances all of his life. Any common sense reading of his “manifesto” shows how shallow it is.
Which means the teacher can spin what it says and ignore the millions killed in its name.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with studying the Manifesto. I’ve read it numerous times, along with Das Kapital. They both demonstrate the utter insanity of Marxism, and help one to understand the mindset of liberals. Read them and you will know why using logic to advance your argument is useless. You will also begin to comprehend the peril of incremental socialism and the fallacies that undergird it.
"How do you tell a Communist?
Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist?
It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin
-Ronald Reagan
Discussing Marx and reading his manifesto is not necessarily a bad thing. Often it was so to see just what this commie stuff is all about. Know thine enemy?
Of course, many these days probably do it to celebrate the ideology, but studying it is not ipso facto celebration. My sister carried around a “Mein Kampf” at school she was reading from my mom’s collection and she got accosted for this false assumption.
I agree, while in college we read it as well but to pick it apart. Of course I went to a small private Christian college in the deep south... But hey, if you don’t know what it says it is hard to argue with the idiots. Same reason I have read the mussies book.
That's the way I was taught it back in the 70s along with Plato's Republic. Times have changed.
That was THE reason the professor had us study it.
I would agree if there was an equal representation of other writings - Adam Smith, Frederick Hayek, Julian Simon. But that is not indicated by a similar level of use.
Bill Ayers & his ilk have been making a determined effort to teach socialism & to NOT teach logic or critical thinking. It is indeed indoctrination.
Well, I’ve been away from the university culture for over 30 years, so I’m very appreciative for your observations on what exists there now. But I cannot say I didn’t see this coming a long time ago.
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