Education is the key. Help as many youth as you can. The survival of our Sacred Republic is at stake.
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Not surprising though.
When I was in college we had to read it alright. But we picked that thing apart for all it’s idiocy. The professor led the way. Of course this was in Fairbanks.
My PoliSci professor was talking about how stupid Marx was. Needless to say, he’s one of my favorite professors. I’ve been considering reading “The Communist Manifesto” so as I could “know mine enemy,” but I’m not sure it’s worth the time.
Three books for molding young skulls full of mush:
The Communist Manifesto - The Communist in Theory
Dreams of My Father - The Communist in Person
Rules for Radicals - The Communist in Practice
I come from a completely different world where Boyce and Diprima or Marion means you read the best.
I, Sivad, offer my services as commissar in charge of
division of labor resources under the new worker’s
paradise system. My first declaration is that 95% of
all college professors will be terminated from their
academic positions. There are far more professors than
are needed. These excess educators will be reassigned
to local agricultural collectives to work as field hands.
“To each according to his needs”
Be happy in your work.
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!
i fear and think it will not come in a peaceful manner.
too much is at stake for those that would destroy the country.
the academia, media, RINO establishment and dems are entrenched and drooling that they are so close to their dream.
they usually end up getting slaughtered in the end and never learn from history.
i’m NOT advocating slaughter, just saying that history hasn’t been kind to the intelligentsia once they have pushed the masses too far.
Ah, it may well be that looking at sections of "Communist Manifesto" and other of Marx's writings ("Das Kapital") may not be "indoctrination" but rather a way for the teacher to dis-indoctrinate a student or a culture by showing specifically how Marx's theories have indeed failed.
So don't say that having these writings on the list of readings for study of economics is "indoctrination."
For comparison, I have a translation of the Koran, but reading from sections of it are not going to "indoctrinate" me into Mohammedanism.
To get a balanced view on the inclusion of readings oppositional to one's personal philosophy may indeed strengthen one's resistance to them, not weaken.
One insight well worth reading is the comment on "Das Kapital" made by Martin Asiner on the Amazon site where one can buy a translation of it. Asiner's comment is titled "Read Das Kapital for Passion not Use-Value" (click here)(scroll down to the "Customer Reviews" section of the Amazon page).
Don't be a clod-hopper and refuse to allow exposure to challenging ideas in the marketplace of economic or religious or medical or military or political theories. If you strenuously object, perhaps FR is not a place to exclude a discussion of contrary opinions, eh?
I read Marx in college, and understanding him well has protected me against any risk of being deceived by that branch of evil. It also helps that avarice and envy are not among the mistakes that tempt me, since all branches of socialism are based on those deadly sins.
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.
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.
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.