You don’t have to go all the way to the Soviet Union for an example; East Germany and Czechoslovakia have historically had highly educated populations that had communist educational systems imposed on them. The same results apply.
For that matter, most European countries, whether officially Marxist or not, have had the same type of system forced on them to one degree or another.
The US version of educational evolution is peculiar because although it was driven by leftists it does NOT fit the very pragmatic Marxist educational model. Rather it fits a cross between the Deweyite model, which has never impressed international Marxists, even to the extent they ever heard of it they were not impressed. It is essentially a license to permit any sort of subjectivism.
The other peculiar influences are from the multicultural/racial consciousness/feminist/environmental/etc. movements. What all this is is a huge pack of fashionable cranks. George Orwell wrote in “Wigan Pier” (1937) that he objected to the tendency of the English leftist movement (he being hard left at the time) to collect and even become dominated by a multitude of cranks with all sorts of non-Marxist bees in their bonnets. The European Marxists he said were not hampered by such a swarm of the illogical, whimsical and useless. Proper Marxists had a single world-view and a single vision of the truth. Beyond this necessary kernel of blind faith they were supposed to be mechanically logical and pragmatic. Foolish fashions were mere bourgeois affectations that didn’t belong in a workers movement.
Well, thats what we have here - the American left is not really a workers movement at all, it is a loose alliance of undirected, underinformed, underemployed and illogical cranks - nearly all the cranks a society can produce. They are powerful because they dominate fashion, so all their multitude of irreconcilable ideas are fashionable. Hence the incoherence and illogic of their institutions. It seems to many like its a conspiracy. It isn’t, its just the mass stupidity caused by the whims of the over-comfortable.
So today’s American Marxists are just a collection of harmless little cranks with no central direction? This is what you want me to believe?
Sorry, I’m not buying your bridge. Coopting America’s vital infrastructure did not happen by accident by a bunch of undirected cranks. Can’t disagree about the crank part in and of itself. I believe they are more appropriately referred to as the dedicated Marxist’s useful idiots.
For your take to be credible you must be able to explain how education, unions, media, religious leadership, Wall Street leadership and the GOP have been so severly coopted. An random event produced by a bunch of Marxist cranks doesn’t cut it.