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so why is it OK for 90 percent of the faculty to be communists
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:09 pm
at so many of our colleges and universities, yet anyone associated with the "right" isn't even allowed to speak?
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Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:11 pm to stephendomalley
Don't go to crap universities. Or speak up against them, don't back down to people who hate opinions
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:11 pm to stephendomalley
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colleges and universities
these aren't good for anything besides getting indoctrinated and indebted
real americans go to trade school
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:13 pm to stephendomalley
quote:I've never met a single professor who espoused anything close to communist beliefs. Liberal? Sure. But even the liberal professors were usually quite fond of making money like a capitalist.
so why is it OK for 90 percent of the faculty to be communists
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:16 pm to buckeye_vol
quote:
I've never met a single professor who espoused anything close to communist beliefs. Liberal? Sure. But even the liberal professors were usually quite fond of making money like a capitalist
I'm glad rational thought showed itself early in this absurd thread. Professors are well paid. They aren't in favor of ration lines.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:21 pm to el Gaucho
quote:
colleges and universities
these aren't good for anything besides getting indoctrinated and indebted
real americans go to trade school
Seriously. Universities are absolutely unnecessary in society. Who needs doctors, engineers, computer scientist, etc?
Anti-intellectualism has reached an absurd level in this country. Young people have always been more liberal and idealistic. But willfully staying ignorant and thinking smart people are the enemy, is what's leading this country into Idiocracy.
Edit: and I didn't finish college. But I found a trade that allows me to make 6 figures by myself mid thirties. It's an important blue collar job that makes America's a better place for generations. I of all people know that college isn't a requirement for everyone. But to call it evil is the definition of ignorance.
This post was edited on 8/14/17 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:25 pm to stephendomalley
90 percent of faculty at most schools are most definitely not Communist.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:26 pm to crazy4lsu
I'd say a solid 20% of professors have a soft spot in their heart for Marx
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I went to college at lsu 30 years ago and every department except history and business were loaded with communists. if you want to say socialist instead, fine. but it has only gotten worse.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:50 pm to stephendomalley
What's that got to do with their ability to teach thermodynamics?
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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I'd say a solid 20% of professors have a soft spot in their heart for Marx
I've taught at large universities and that isn't my experience.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:56 pm to crazy4lsu
Marxism is much more alive on college campuses than it is in the world as a whole
Posted on 8/14/17 at 8:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Maybe, but it depends on department and who is the popular theorist. For a while it was Marcuse, then Derrida, a host of others like Judith Butler, Antonio Negri and now, from what I can tell, is Zizek. This is for English. In History I know that Hayden White was very popular for his work on histiography, but I don't think there is a cogent Marxism on college campuses.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 8:52 pm to stephendomalley
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90 percent of the faculty to be communists
I'd like to see the link for that one!
Posted on 8/14/17 at 8:56 pm to islandtiger
A lot of the Marxists at Universities are what you may call analytical Marxists. Marx was a social scientist and offered a way to study and explain human societies through time. A lot of people use Marxist analysis in studying history, society, economics, culture, and so on but that doesn't make them revolutionary Marxist socialists.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:08 pm to stephendomalley
You won't get an honest reply to this.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:12 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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I'd say a solid 20% of professors have a soft spot in their heart for Marx
That number is more like 90 in Architecture and the rest of the College of Art and Design. They even forced us to volunteer for ACORN after Katrina.
This post was edited on 8/14/17 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:15 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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I'd say a solid 20% of professors have a soft spot in their heart for Marx
I am a university professor.
At the risk of tossing out a statement without a citation, I'd say that number is easily higher than 20%.
I had a colleague openly admit during a faculty meeting that her philosophical, political, and social ideology leaned far left of communism.
The room of peers simply nodded--if not in agreement, certainly in understanding.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:16 pm to stephendomalley
Academia was overrun by socialists in the 60s and 70s. They have a stranglehold
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:22 pm to buckeye_vol
quote:"The goal of socialism is communism." Vladimir Lenin
I've never met a single professor who espoused anything close to communist beliefs
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