The project is much older than three decades. It began in earnest about a century ago when John Dewey returned from Stalin's Potemkin villages and set out to destroy American education so it could be rebuilt in Stalin's mold.
It grew when Herbert Marcuse and György Lukácz and others met at the Goethe Institut of the Frankfurt School to ponder the question "why has the great proletarian revolution not swept the world?" Their conclusion was "not enough division." So they invented Critical Theory. Being a communist, Marcuse had to flee Germany because he was competing for the same socialist niche as Hitler. He landed at Columbia, and then Harvard.
Angela Davis was fired from the University of California at Los Angeles because she was teaching communism. She went to court. Thanks to Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, the courts had become so politicized that instead of saying "Miss Davis can say whatever she wants to say on her own time but the Regents of the University of California are not required to pay for it," they required her to be re-hired, and to teach whatever she wanted to teach — in other words, the Regents have no control over the curriculum.
Poverty declined from 60% during the Great Depression to about 20% in 1964. That decline was stopped by the "great society" programs from Lyndon Johnson and his cynical cronies, who believed that perpetuating racism, poverty, and government dependency, and that replacing thriving black communities with stack-and-pack "projects" that concentrated crime, racism, and drugs would make for a permanent Democrat majority.
Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925) said "there is a class of men who do not want the patient to heal." He was referring to medicine. Frederick Douglass apparently didn't quote him in the context of racism, but it would have been accurate if he did. David is right that there is a thriving industry in perpetuating racism and poverty. We all know who today's team leaders are.
The earnest communist Ernest Hemingway said "gradually at first, then suddenly" about his bankruptcy. But that's the same as Sun Tzu and Antonio Gramsci wrote, culminating with Barack Obama's "fundamental transformation of America." But for the 5 November 2024 election, the "suddenly" part would be firmly upon us.
The project is much older than three decades. It began in earnest about a century ago when John Dewey returned from Stalin's Potemkin villages and set out to destroy American education so it could be rebuilt in Stalin's mold.
It grew when Herbert Marcuse and György Lukácz and others met at the Goethe Institut of the Frankfurt School to ponder the question "why has the great proletarian revolution not swept the world?" Their conclusion was "not enough division." So they invented Critical Theory. Being a communist, Marcuse had to flee Germany because he was competing for the same socialist niche as Hitler. He landed at Columbia, and then Harvard.
Angela Davis was fired from the University of California at Los Angeles because she was teaching communism. She went to court. Thanks to Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, the courts had become so politicized that instead of saying "Miss Davis can say whatever she wants to say on her own time but the Regents of the University of California are not required to pay for it," they required her to be re-hired, and to teach whatever she wanted to teach — in other words, the Regents have no control over the curriculum.
Poverty declined from 60% during the Great Depression to about 20% in 1964. That decline was stopped by the "great society" programs from Lyndon Johnson and his cynical cronies, who believed that perpetuating racism, poverty, and government dependency, and that replacing thriving black communities with stack-and-pack "projects" that concentrated crime, racism, and drugs would make for a permanent Democrat majority.
Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925) said "there is a class of men who do not want the patient to heal." He was referring to medicine. Frederick Douglass apparently didn't quote him in the context of racism, but it would have been accurate if he did. David is right that there is a thriving industry in perpetuating racism and poverty. We all know who today's team leaders are.
The earnest communist Ernest Hemingway said "gradually at first, then suddenly" about his bankruptcy. But that's the same as Sun Tzu and Antonio Gramsci wrote, culminating with Barack Obama's "fundamental transformation of America." But for the 5 November 2024 election, the "suddenly" part would be firmly upon us.