And lest we lull ourselves into thinking that the ideological capture of our universities could not happen here, the testimony before the U.S. Congress of the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT should give us pause.
In our recent book “NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It,” Katharine Cornell Gorka and I describe Students for Justice in Palestine as having been so vile in its support for Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre and gang rapes of Jewish women in Israel
The prodigies of the Frankfurt School employed a seductive version of Marxism focused on alleged oppression and racism in democratic capitalist societies.
Opponents of the ideology say it foments communist class struggle along racial lines and will lead to catastrophic consequences, while proponents have attempted to separate CRT from Marxism by saying it provides a more accurate interpretation of U.S.
It is a searing indictment of U.S. higher education that our students and graduates are so ignorant of the death and destruction wrought by both communism and socialism that they can advocate for Marxism with a straight face.
This helped position the School and lead it to be a catalyst for the arrival of the "New Left," a U.S.-born strain of Marxism that gained widespread popularity across North America and Western Europe.
They control all the universities. They control all the cultural institutions. They control practically everything," de Carvalho said of the communists in Brazil.
Some recent examples in the news include the following:
Academia
According to an April 15 report in The Philadelphia Inquirer, “the tally of gifts and contracts from China to U.S. universities since the start of 2013 is approaching $1 billion.”
They go to universities, but you can’t find any discussion of this stuff in almost any academic setting. Instead, everybody’s thinking in terms of enlightenment liberal ideas.
Fearing its universal spiritual teachings, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin viewed the peaceful practice as a threat to the communist ideologies of materialism, atheism, and Marxism. He then launched a brutal campaign against Falun Gong in 1999.
Liu’s Aug. 5 to Sept. 1 tour began in California, visiting the Labor Center at the University of California, Berkeley. From there, Liu visited the U.S.
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University to Broader Society
Murray said that teaching people to hate the West started inuniversities, where students have “studied history framed by authors who talked about the original sin of colonialism, but now,
While Chinese students rated best in the world with a combined score of 1,731, U.S. students ranked 26th with a combined score of 1,489, according to the World Population Review.
In the United States, our own Marxist revolution arrived on our shores in the 1930s from Frankfurt in National Socialist Germany, when a handful of Marxist scholars—if one can dignify Marxism, a philosophy of resentful losers, with the term “scholarship
Only now is it clear that some of the most radical and benighted have subsisted long enough in the outer corridors of power to find themselves suddenly translated into its inner sanctum, the White House and other top agencies of the U.S. government.
In every case, at the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.”
The Tenth Amendment to the U.S.
Red diaper babies led most of the campus activism of the 1960s in both the United States and Europe. Berkeley’s Bettina Aptheker is a striking example. Her father was the top ideologue of the U.S.
According to research commissioned by Reuters in 2022, more than 42,000 children were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the U.S, which is nearly triple that from 2017.
It was only natural that U.S. educational institutions would eventually be in their crosshairs.
During the 1930s, the “Red Decade,” Frankfurt School members gained increasing importance in leftist pedagogical circles.
His quack theories about sexuality were called “a fraud of the first magnitude” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and he died, intermittently psychotic, in federal prison in 1957.
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PKU was the first base for the spread of Marxismin China; the earliest group of Chinese communists and Marxists came from Peking University.