Posted on 03/08/2022 5:30:56 PM PST by MarvinStinson
The University of Florida has named a study room after Communist Manifesto author Karl Marx, who the university calls a “philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary critic.”
Karl Marx, who the University of Florida has labeled as a “philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary critic,” has been honored with the naming of a study room in the Library West.
Library West is part of the George A. Smathers Libraries system of the University of Florida.
Below the name of the study room is a sign which credits Marx as being the “founder of scientific socialism,” whose “reputation as a radical thinker” emerged during the rise of the socialist political parties in the 1870s and 1880s.
“The unique extent of the influence of Marx’s materialist explanation of the workings of society, economics and history, inevitably saw Marxist theory extend its influence to literary criticism,” the plaque reads.
Marx is also credited with laying the foundation for the rise of “socialist and communist movements throughout the world.”
Karl Marx Group Study Room is reportedly one of 14 spaces that students can reserve and holds the largest occupancy available.
Each study room is reportedly named after a different influential individual. Names of other study rooms include Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists Frederick Douglass, and authors William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Jane Austen.
Many, however, might consider naming a room in honor of Marx to be a bizarre move, given that international communism — which has left 100 million people dead over the course of 100 years — is grounded in the late philosopher’s ideas, known as Marxism.
While the University of Florida props up Marx’s name, schools across the country are tearing down American figures, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Paul Revere.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Last year, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to rename 44 of the city’s schools, claiming that prominent figures from American history were tied to racist incidents. The committee also based their decisions on Wikipedia and other wildly inaccurate information to source its claims.
Destroy it.
I’m serious.
If we don’t get our figures - they don’t get theirs.
Is there a Himmler study room?
Is this the Bee?
Marx was a documented anti-semite and a wife beater; I guess that is ok with the Woke generation.
Outrageous.
When I was in high school (in Florida) we had a required class for seniors called AvC, Americanism vs. Communism. I see the state of Florida must no longer require that course.
This news, while not surprising, still breaks my heart.
Why aren’t the campus commies out in the street protesting the war? I’ve never seen such a monolithic rush to war.
I have known a lot of people who had lived under Communism. I will hazard a guess that no one who has lived under Communism was involved in making this choice.
Gov. Desantis should announce that ALL state support for this dreg upon society has hereby forfeited all state financial support. Period. End of discussion.
There are plenty of excellent books we could send for people to ‘study’ Karl Marx.
The study room is stocked with opium and absinthe?
"The Jewish nigger Lassalle who, I’m glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation. The chap would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend,’ even though his interest and capital were guaranteed. … It is now quite plain to me—as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify—that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger). Now, this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock, on the other, must inevitably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow’s importunity is also nigger-like.” Karl Marx, “Marx to Friedrich Engels in Manchester,” 1862“What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. … Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man—and turns them into commodities. … The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. … The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.” Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question,” 1844
As an Alum I would support that 100%.
They named the whole system for Smather. Completely partisan.
The snack machine will be empty.
I’m so old I remember when Dims were for socialism but didn’t say it. Now they’re not only brazenly socialist but also communist.
I’m a Gator through and through! But, my allegiance stops at sports. The a academics, and faculty, border on communistic! Maybe, no longer border on!
Let’s Go Brandon!
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