Posted on 09/11/2025 11:53:18 PM PDT by Libloather
A professor at Texas State University was axed on Wednesday after a video of him allegedly advocating for political violence during a socialism conference went viral.
Tom Alter, a now-former associate history professor at TSU and member of Socialist Horizon, spoke at the online Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2025 on Sept. 7, according to screen recordings shared on X.
During his brief talk, Alter launched into a tirade about the “US Capitalist crisis” that he claimed is exacerbating issues like education, mental health and even basic infrastructure.
“What makes the current crisis an extra problem for capitalists is the willingness of people to fight back,” Alter said.
He presented a rough pitch for how socialists could organize a stronger base within the US and criticized various parties, including the Chinese Communist Party, Democrats and “insurrectional anarchists,” for their half-baked methods of organizing.
Alter wished-washed on his approach and praised other anarchists who had been detained or even convicted for participating in protests
“While their actions are laudable, it should be asked, to what purpose do they serve? Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world — that of the United States?” Alter said in the full clip posted on YouTube.
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One of many advocates of Marxism.
Ok so this is what calling for insurection actually looks like.
If he’s a socialist, the boy never learned anything about “History” in college. I wonder what the boy did during all those years in “college.” Bopped his baloney?
Seems to me that demonstrating the failings of communism and socialism would not require great effort. Starvation, repression, and death are their hallmarks and legacy. For someone to serve as a professor, ignoring this legacy and promoting socialism as superior, suggests he’s ill equipped to serve in his role.
Absolutely debate and argue, but this guy seems more apt to give a failing grade for not choosing his political point of view. He should move to a socialist utopia - good luck finding it.
Maybe it wasn’t his baloney.
Maybe that’s part of the problem.
The bigger questions: How did he get hired in the first place? When is there going to be affirmative action for Republican professors?
What’s funny is that Stalin would have put a bullet in the brainpan of guys like this.
I don’t know if there is a natural life span for a free market economy, but I know that the Soviet Union collapsed at seventy five years, and China isn’t doing so well.
Violence is the primary tool the left uses one way or another it’s used.
He looks a little “special”
Apparently
it’s also now what “I had a high-paying job but it’s gone now” looks like
Them history professors are all the same.
But far too few voters stand up to the historical establishment in the same ways we have people standing up to the media establishment.
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