Lies My Teachers Told Me

Politically Right.com ^ | J.D. Cassidy

[Pyro7480]

BTTT!

[pgkdan]

Great post! Is this your first? I see that you're new here, welcome aboard! I think you'll find a friendly reception from many Freepers.

[CharliefromKS]

"I was lucky. For whatever reason, perhaps my upbringing, perhaps my world experience, I saw that my professors were only giving me half the story."

Most American kids these days aren't that "lucky." That's why we're in such deep sh*t. Great article. BTTT.

[RunningJoke]

"Lie Number Six: Marx Was A “Genius:”

"The manner in which the word "job" lost its magical potency illustrates the irony of history. I remember how scornful I felt when I first read Marx's description of the worker's attitude toward work in a capitalist society. The worker, he said, feels physically and morally debased by his work. He is an exile in his place of work and feels at home only when away from his job. Marx never did a day of work in his life, and never took the trouble to find out how a worker really feels when on the job. He naturally assumed that workers were a lesser breed of intellectuals." -E. Hoffer

"The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth."

[Rummyfan]

Bump for later read.

[Centrist]

ping

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - EDUCATION - INDOCTRINATION

[elbucko]

Leftist professors love to point out that the Vietnam war is an example of America’s “imperialist ambitions,”

The real reason LBJ escalated the assistance that the US offered So. Vietnam, under the SEATO treaty, was to insure LBJ a second term and the continuation of the "Great Society". Sadly, nothing more and nothing as noble as fighting communisim. However, that's what the American soldiers were really doing, fighting communism, despite their cynical manipulation and abuse from Wash. DC.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Marx was a maggot from deep within a pile of dog crap that is communism.

[MegaSilver]

Excellent article that does a great job debunking the left's loony revisionist history.

It left out one important (and oft-repeated) myth, though: that McCarthyism was a brutal reactionary oppression of peaceful left-wing democratic sympathists. The truth is, the CPUSA had close ties to the Soviets, and we had every reason to be afraid of them. The "Hollywood Ten" was, indeed, a group of trecherous Communists.

As for McCarthyism itself, these so-called "Communist Witch-Hunts" were not a product of McCarthy; rather, McCarthyism was a product of the (rightly held) antipathy toward Communism. McCarthy had the right idea, even if he took the wrong approach.

As if to drive the point home, the "blacklist" that McCarthy used was nothing new. It had been formed to root substance abusers, alcoholics, Communists, and Nazi sympathists out of governmental positions; given his alcoholism, had the litmus test been applied to McCarthy himself, he would've been toast long before the Senate voted for his censure.

Another myth: that John F. Kennedy was a liberal saint who would usher in the new era of peace and tolerance. (Of course, the idea that leftism promotes peace and tolerance is debatable, but that's a topic for another day.)

The truth: JFK cut the capital gains tax. He was friendly with Richard Nixon. He and his brother Robert were friends with and political supporters of Joseph McCarthy. Kennedy was decidedly anti-Communist, and he waffled a bit on the Civil Rights Amendment.

[JustPlainJoe]

Marx WAS a genius! Groucho is one of my FAVORITE authors!

[EdReform]

BTTT

read later...

[TomServo]

Bookmarked...

[elbucko]

Your entire post, well said!

[H.Bowman]

Great post! My son will be a freshman in the fall and I've already printed him up a copy. Thanks!

[swilhelm73]

The truth is, the CPUSA had close ties to the Soviets, and we had every reason to be afraid of them.

Actually, you are understating the case here. The CPUSA was both funded and controlled by the Soviet Union. We know this both from the Venona data and also because the bagman was an American spy.

His name escapes me at the moment, but he had been a former communist who was sent back in to the party at the the behest of the US government. He became highly trusted by the Soviets after making a spot on analysis of what would happen to Nixon in regards to Watergate.

[In_25_words_or_less]

Once the radical spell is cast over an impressionable student, it is difficult to break. Of this, radical professors are well aware. It is for this reason that droves of New Leftists filed into academia at the close of the 1960s. Each year, colleges and universities enroll thousands of young, eager minds. What better place to find converts for the radical faith?

And what better way to ensure sweeping indoctrination than to require that all job applicants have a college degree?

[In_25_words_or_less]

The fact is, America has no empire.

I don't know about that. It rules many states that once had sovreignty in principle, which it conquered in war.

[RunningJoke]

If you liked that, I would recommend reading the books of Eric Hoffer. He was a self-taught writer, who worked as long shoreman, miner, and migrant farm worker. He is the left's worst night mare. A working man, who states the truths of everyday life.

"It is part of the sickness of our time that money has lost its magic power. What ails societies at present is not that everybody wants as much money as possible but that everybody wants to do as little as possible. We used to wonder how in the nineteenth century it was possible for so few to have so much at the expense of the many. Now the wonder is that so many get so much at the expense of the few. A showdown between the few who work and the many who don't will make a strange sort of revolution." - E. Hoffer