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Parents and taxpayers are spending $40,000 a year to indoctrinate their kids into Marxism. That’s the postmodern college experience.
Open Syllabus has a breakdown of the most assigned authors.
In first place is Michel Focault, the ‘thinker’ behind much of the modern breakdown, including the pro-crime movement, with over 43,000 appearances, Shakespeare is in 3rd place with over 30,000 and Karl Marx is close behind with around 29,000.
Judith Butler, who denies the existence of gender and praises Islamic terrorists, is in 11th place, Plato is in 13th, Edward Said, the godfather of campus terrorist supporter is at 16th, and Kant is at 18th.
Marx’s Manifesto of the Communist Party is the 13th most assigned book, Said’s Orientalism is the 12th most assigned book. These are total numbers, but the books above it are technical which means that the Communist Manifesto is really the most assigned college political or history text.
We all would be SOooo much better off, if the most assigned Book was the Holy Bible!
It is worse than that: the teaching is that Karl Marx is the “liberated” “Jew” while observant Jews are “opiated” and therefore “oppressed” by their Judaism.
Only the Muslims are “freed” by their organized religion. — Woke students must therefore respect the Muslims who bow toward Mecca on their prayer rugs
I wouldn’t actually call it a book. More of a short, short booklet. The first part is the manifesto which is followed by a section of questions and answers, both are each around 30 pages long. You could probably read it in a few hours if you had it in mind to read it.
But like I’ve said before in other comments, Marx didn’t come up with anything new, he just took a bad idea and made it much worse. What else could you call an entity that controls all commerce, industry, agriculture, arts and entertainment, science and medicine, media, labor unions and etcetera but an absolute monopoly with a permanent ruling class?
And people fall for that. I did once, long ago.
Marx was indeed a rewrite of Marat’s pamphlets.
Karl Marx was worst then Hitler ever could be and the Tax Payers are paying out vast sums for all this Leftists Brainwashing if there ever was a time to totally Defund those Campuses that carry this kind of stuff its Right Now and Shut off the leftists Brainwashing
They should assign Mark Levin’s book “Ameritopia”. All of the bad political ideas of the past in one book and the arguments against each one. Then maybe we can be done with these disastrous concepts that have created misery all over the world.
Michel Foucault is awful..
Is Marx in 4th place, right behind Shakespeare, or in 13tg place? I thunk some professors assign Marx because he playedvsuch important part in 20th century pilitical thinking.
dumb parents ensuring their children are even dumber . the film was funny the current reality not so . if you need a summation of the most appalling individuals that are held up as heroes in the academic world all you need is paul johnson s [ the intellectuals ] . a handbook as to why you should avoid universities at all cost . you go in as a blank slate you come out as dumb as a box of rocks [ or just as a demonstrator ] fit for no purpose and lumbered with a monumental debt .
Marx’s ideas are so painfully idiotic it makes my head hurt. Bonhoeffer was right when he said stupidity is the real enemy.
Yes, the “Communist Manifesto” is a silly book, devoid of even historical meaning outside the context of 19th century trends in political philosophy. Indeed, what little meaning Marx scholarship has for the literate world is lost on today’s college campuses, where books go to die. Marx’s “Dialectical Materialism” cannot be explained through pictures and, therefore, does not translate into the text message speech of today’s smartphone generation. While Karl Marx’s idiotic “Communist Manifesto” may be widely assigned to college students, the actual reading of it is, at best, perfunctory. On balance, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
“I Rigoburta Menchu” is a book proven to be pure garbage.
The author, a lying, Marxist bitch was a thorn in Reagan’s Central American foreign policy. That enticed the quislings in Oslo to lavish her with a Nobel Peace Prize.
The irony is after receiving the Prize, Rigoberta’s neighbors in Guatemala blackmailed her for some of the prize money, leading to her exposure as a fraud.
A thicker irony is her hoax book is still required purchase in colleges. Her story might be pure bullshit, but leftist professors love the story.
Leftists will scream “censorship!” if Gender Queer is removed from 1st grade libraries, while they themselves ban classics like Tom Sawyer, Animal Farm, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
When The Communist Manifesto, Das Capital, I Rigoberta Menchu, Origin of Species, The People’s History of America, etc are assigned for study, they are glowing promoted.
Walk in class with The Art of the Deal, Radical Son, or a Bible, and the faculty will have seizures.
Anyone with common sense who reads Das Kapital will find it hilarious. Arguing that goods acquire worth only from the labor required to produce them is kindergarten level logic. The actual example of the worth of diamonds is particularly telling. Resource costs are not a part of Marx’s math, which may explain why the Soviet command and control economy had its uniquely unsuccessful economic model.
Granted, today’s high school graduates, who cannot read or write in cursive, can scarcely print legibly, haven’t seen a truthful American or world history book, and have the attention span of a Golden Retriever. can’t be expected to balance a checkbook. much less debate a bone-headed Communist diatribe. Not having a foundation in the market economy, they are ill-prepared to find the humor in Marx’s diatribe.
They may well enjoy their future in the Matrix.
What pisses me off is the fact that those college professors who push that Marxist screed live or work in an insular world separate and apart from the world that “normal” people live in. That is to say, academia is not the real world of the average person.
Those college professors will never have to suffer the consequences of the ideology they indoctrinate young and gullible minds with. Those young and gullible minds don’t learn until it’s almost too late that Marxism is nothing more than pie in the sky bullsh*t that has never worked anywhere it’s been tried.
The truth of the matter is dropped on them like a ton of bricks when they have to get a real job in the real world and start fending for themselves by paying utilities bills and taxes, making ends meet every month, dealing with the vagaries of everyday living, dealing with crime and criminals, etc., etc., and then having to sit and watch the nightly news and hear politicians lie their asses off and see a bunch of miserable non-English speaking bastards walk across the border and get treated like VIPs at their expense.
In terse words, those young minds get a harsh lesson about life and thoroughly disabused of that Marxist bullsh*t they were indoctrinated with when they have to exist in the real world where the truth punches them in the face and reality kicks their asses 24/7/365.
In my own experience, I’ve seen this happen many times over.
Sad, but many of the assignments of book could be in the category of studying history or political philosophy in a critical, historical manner ( and know thy enemy etc) rather as a manual of indoctrination. Although your numbers and overall point are alarming: kids are indoc’d by schools and society starting k-12 and continuing in ‘uni’
It should be required that those promoting communism via their college curriculum are also mandated to review the results of this “system” in reality. That would mean viewing and reading documentaries on Stalin, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pat and Hitler. as well as the current dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping in China.
They would be required to write papers on the impact of this “philosophy in reality.
That would certainly ask students to do more than just regurgitate the manifesto talking points.
One thing is evident, students today are lacking the essential skills necessary to withstand empirical criticism of the ideas to which they have attached themselves.. They laud these ideas without seeing the results of them being implemented in reality.
Their immediate attachment is to a virtually curated, philosophical platform that generally preempts them from even a cursory opportunity in finding out how this philosophy functions in reality. These young people are ignorant in the fundamentals of our Constitution, what the free enterprise system is about and how it functions in upholding the value of individual creativity, innovation and industry. Why we are actually a representative republic and not a democracy and why self responsibility and accountability are the foundations for individual freedom.
These college students are simultaneously ignorant and zealous, a dangerous combination that needs the attention of a counter-intuitive revelation requiring them to investigate the other side. That’s what term papers once required. After all, there are two sides to every story and to find the truth you must investigate both sides.
Marxism, communism, socialism and all the other isms is for thee, not for me. Purveyors of isms rarely if ever, get hoisted by their own petard.
Proof? Read about the decadent life styles of Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, et al.
I attended a parochial high school in NC and as a freshman, one mandatory class was Communism. Not to indoctrinate but inform of the dangers and consequences of what had taken place in the USSR to that time. We did read Marx and others.
I’m not trying to contradict Daniel’s article, just highlight that how a subject is presented and taught can change the perspective. Not what’s taking place in Universities today.
Also that was a different time. I wish I could remember more, but that was more than 65 years ago. Ouch!