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Marxist group disbands because members were too rich, white
Campus Reform ^ | July 26, 2017 | Matthew Stein

Posted on 07/27/2017 10:26:19 AM PDT by C19fan

A Marxist student group at Swarthmore College disbanded itself earlier this year after realizing that its members were too rich and too white to be real commies.

According to screenshots confidentially provided to Campus Reform by an individual with access to the group’s private Facebook page, the demise of the Swarthmore Anti-Capitalist Collective (SACC) came in the wake of a farewell letter from a member who had decided the group could never be an effective proponent of “unproblematized anticapitalist politics” due to its “history of abuse, racism, and even classism.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: college; communists; marxists; race; swarthmore
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What is funny a a large number of the most prominent Commies came from "privileged" backgrounds.
1 posted on 07/27/2017 10:26:19 AM PDT by C19fan
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Not good enough! They should stand up against a wall and commit suicide.


2 posted on 07/27/2017 10:30:51 AM PDT by beelzepug (Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
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...and to make matters worse, “not one of [the founding members] are from low-income and/or working class backgrounds.”

At Swarthmore? No wonder it was a small club.

3 posted on 07/27/2017 10:33:11 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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This is great news!

Now that they’re so put off by whiteness, maybe they’ll stop being snowflakes! You know, get on with the pursuit of truth and knowledge, wherever it may lead? Even if it hurts?


4 posted on 07/27/2017 10:33:41 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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5 posted on 07/27/2017 10:35:43 AM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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Communism is just greedy people taking advantage of stupid people.


6 posted on 07/27/2017 10:35:51 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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It doesn’t count without a beheading!!!


7 posted on 07/27/2017 10:36:11 AM PDT by The Toll
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Stalin would have had them all shot.


8 posted on 07/27/2017 10:39:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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First, it takes $47k a year for tuition. Figure the clothing, the food, and beer....a kid would require $65,000 minimum.

Second, with only 1,500 students....my humble guess is that this Marxist group probably made up a total of 10 members max...probably all male. I would be curious how a guy paying $47k a year....would find the logic to join a Marxist club.


9 posted on 07/27/2017 10:41:45 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Alternative would have been for them to give their riches away and stay true to their beliefs. Oh, maybe they were just skin-deep/ thin veneer Marxists. Do you suppose??


10 posted on 07/27/2017 10:43:03 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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Revolutionaries almost always come from the leisure classes. The genuine “poor” usually do not have the time—even if they have the intelligence—to plot revolution. (Thus aristocrats in peasant garb led the March on the Bastille; thus Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution; thus George Soros, etc.


11 posted on 07/27/2017 10:52:14 AM PDT by Ohioan
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You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain . . .

-Oingo Boingo - “Capitalism”


12 posted on 07/27/2017 10:54:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Too rich and too White. Just like the eco groups. I’ve seen more diversity at a NASCAR race.


13 posted on 07/27/2017 10:56:05 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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C’mon kids - don’t give up!

Marx, Engel, Lenin, even Mao came from the bourgeoisie. Many past Marxists have said it is often you privileged white kids can see the true system for what it is You are the vanguard - it is your job to promote class consciousness and promote the revolution! So don’t worry about your whiteness and wealth!


14 posted on 07/27/2017 10:56:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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I’ve read several books on the Soviet Revolution. The first thing that struck me was when the commies went to fire up the serfs (in the outback). Not only was that rejected by the serfs, most of the commies didn’t make it back alive. So the commies were stuck finding ‘masses’ in the cities, which they did, given the industrialization that was rapidly taking place.

But yes, the commie leaders, ALL OF THEM, where loaded with bucks...as we all know.


15 posted on 07/27/2017 10:59:14 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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And their hero, Che Guevara, was also white and middle-class.


16 posted on 07/27/2017 11:00:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Both Marx and Engels came from well to do families. Engels had quit school and his father wanted him to work in a clerical position, and that’s when he decided to start the communist philosophy. Neither one of them were poor and struggling. They just thought they were smarter than everyone.
Some things never change.


17 posted on 07/27/2017 11:15:02 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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Read my post 17.


18 posted on 07/27/2017 11:17:21 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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19 posted on 07/27/2017 11:20:51 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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When Cass was a Sophomore,planned to go to Swarthmore but she changed her mind one day...

With all the wampum that Cass made I wonder if *she* was a Commie.

20 posted on 07/27/2017 11:56:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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