[Berlin_Freeper]

"Academic Elites" are too ignorant to be communists.

The academics move from dependency from father and mother into a system of dependency to the education system, all the while never having the nerve, endurance, confidence nor required brain power to achieve a self defined life of moving out on their own and thus they create a shell for themselves that identifies with communist rhetoric but they have never actually lived, achieved, experienced those ideals and so they are like parrots chirping out catch word phrases that they don't have a single clue as to what they really mean and so are ignorant.

[american spirit]

You're observation is right on the money.....as a business owner I never pay much attention to any talking head from academia, media or politics that has never had to meet a payroll or worked late into the night or weekends to make sure projects are finished on time. Most of these know-it-alls would be chewed up and spit out in no time if they really had to compete in the very marketplace they've helped to screw up with all their theories and market models.

Along these same lines.....I think a more pertinent discussion would be to identify how much communist style thinking now pervades our political arena. If one were to study the Communist Manifesto vs. the Constitution then compare BOTH to our fedgov operates, the results are pretty eye opening. A couple things that jump out is the federal control of education, a central bank, progressive income tax, etc. Guess which one advocates those positions?