Bruce Deitrick Price June 17, 2024
“HOW DID OUR INSTITUTES OF HIGHER LEARNING TURN INTO MARXIST REEDUCATION CAMPS?”
A hugely important question which every American should try to answer. Here’s my short answer: a vast army of saboteurs has been working in the shadows for more than a century.
Here is the chronology:
1883. Karl Marx died. A major historical event as he was the mind and spirit of revolutionary Communism. Lots of people were passionately committed to fulfilling Marx’s dreams.
1884: a wealthy couple in London founded the Fabian Society, a famous socialist entity. They proposed a blueprint for conquering the world without gunfire. Their best young people would find jobs in major organizations (media, educational, cultural, and foundations). They start at the bottom; 10 years later they’re middle management; 10 years further they’re upper management.
1890: many of the smartest young Americans went to Europe to get a PhD in the new fields of Sociology, Psychology, and Education. (See background in a wonderful little book titled The Leipzig Connection.)
1897: John Dewey published My Pedagogic Creed. Already a famous Socialist, he called himself a Progressive. This book reads like religious testimony. Many paragraphs start with the words “I believe…”
“I believe that this educational process has two sides—one psychological and one sociological; and that neither can be subordinated to the other or neglected without evil results following.” No mention of knowledge, so already his vision for education was half-blind.
Dewey’s books were how-to guides for creating socialist societies. How convenient that universities were generating thousands of credentialed experts in Psychology, Sociology, and Education. These people swarmed through the universities, the ed schools, and the K-12 educational bureaucracy.
1917: Vladimir Lenin’s Red Army conquered the Tsar’s White Army. In 1920 Lenin announced the formation of the Communist International, forces sent to the US and around the world to destroy Capitalism, Western Values, Private Property, and Christianity. Goal was always power by any means. Absolute power, of course, corrupts absolutely.
1931: Education Establishment aims big, announces the replacement of phonics by sight-words (a bogus method that has created 50 million functional illiterates).
The war to dominate American education was now in high gear. So the schools at all levels were in a weird position, pretending to care about education but in fact sabotaging it.
1962: Professors of education, eager to do to math what their colleagues had already done to reading, concocted New Math. A huge, silly failure but the professors would keep trying with variations in the decades ahead.
1991: Communist Russia, aka the USSR, collapsed due to bankruptcy. By that time, Communist governments killed more than 100,000,000 people. Communism explicitly demands the centralization of power, which creates a magnet for the most ruthless and psychopathic.
Present: consider the weird evolution of three Communist dictatorships. Xi is presiding over the almost total collapse of China’s economy. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has cost Russia more than 325,000 casualties. These societies are riddled with corruption and incompetence. The leaders are arrogant and reckless. Biden is himself a Communist-style dictator, arbitrary and irresponsible. Open the border, cancel the pipeline, stifle the middle class, the creation of which is one of the great achievements of the United States.
The goal of socialist indoctrination is to weaken resistance to Socialism and Communism. These ideologues tend to be reckless and opportunistic. Look at the mess the Dems are in right now, because they don’t focus on what’s best for the country. They ran an unfit president and an unpopular vice president. Even the smartest pundits can’t predict how they’ll get out of it.
The Democrat Party has itself been infiltrated and conquered by Marxist thinking. No moral compass remains. “Commies” are guided by a power compass.
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THREE ADDENDA:
1) One of the most useful terms in understanding 20th century political warfare is the contemptuous phrase “useful idiots.” According to rumor, Lenin divided the world into his supporters, a tiny minority, and everybody else, whom he called “useful idiots.” They helped him get away with murder, so to speak.
2) Many people suspect that messing up our economy is a secret goal of Democrats. Probably that’s the real reason for opening the border, blocking the pipeline, etc. Have you heard about Cloward-Piven? This theory says that if you make the society sufficiently HORRIBLE, everybody will demand Socialism. Cloward and Piven seemed to enjoy contemplating how much everybody will suffer to prove this theory is correct.
3) Perhaps the most tragic effect of Democrat meddling is that the notion of Truth is almost ancient history. Watch MSNBC. Note that Harvard chose a plagiarist to be president. Biden and his people lie, and then they lie some more to protect the lies. Biden said he never talked to his son about foreign businesses. When it was proved that he did, Biden insisted that he and his son never discussed the finances of foreign businesses. Oh, well, that clears that up
(Very relevant article: “Normal Healthy People Don’t Want To Be Dictators.”)
Bruce Deitrick Price is author of Saving K-12, which explains how we fix our public schools.
Lit4u.com shows his literary work, 9 titles at the moment. Recently published: Frankie. (She’s completely harmless. Chaos ensues. A unique mystery.) Coming next month: Zak’s War.
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