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1 posted on 12/26/2004 9:37:10 AM PST by Helms

53 posted on 12/26/2004 11:28:22 AM PST by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)

To: little jeremiah

55 posted on 12/26/2004 11:37:41 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)

Good article. Thanks for speaking out on this. I've long since left academia, but still feel concern for what I see happening there from a distance.

58 posted on 12/26/2004 11:53:44 AM PST by Settembrini

"He endows an institute, associated with Frankfurt University, established in 1923, that was originally supposed to be known as the Institute for Marxism."

What is the Frankfurt School? ©

by Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson CDR USN (Ret.) Copyright 1 August 1999

Find it here:

http://www.newtotalitarians.com/FrankfurtSchool.html

yitbos

59 posted on 12/26/2004 11:57:09 AM PST by bruinbirdman (Those who control language control minds)

61 posted on 12/26/2004 12:43:58 PM PST by lunarbicep (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice - Thomas Paine)

bump for later read.

64 posted on 12/26/2004 1:00:00 PM PST by lilmsdangrus

We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.

There's a lot of good material in this speech, but there are also some serious flaws. The good part is the role of Herbert Marcuse. The bad starts with the passage above. As I learned first hand from Lefty relatives almost 20 years ago, the term started as a compliment among Lefties. Lind also exagerrates the role of the Frankfurt School (aka Critical Theory) in the rise of feminism, gay activism, etc. And he confounds cultural Marxism with Stalinism. If he's not going to distinguish between the two, why speak of cultural Marxism in the first place?

It sounds like he read Pat Buchanan's The Death of the West, and The Shadow University, but little else.

74 posted on 12/26/2004 4:19:51 PM PST by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")

my undergraduate education included a heavy dose of the frankfort school.

in addition to the frankfort school, the radical feminists build on jacques lacan and louis althusser.

althusser murdered his wife and the french authorities couldn't bear to put this communist in prison, so they stuck him in a mental hospital.

76 posted on 12/26/2004 7:59:42 PM PST by ken21 (kerrycide = running 4 president on treasonous service in vietnam)

78 posted on 12/27/2004 2:03:08 AM PST by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)

81 posted on 12/14/2008 3:29:00 AM PST by SkyPilot

ping for later read.

82 posted on 12/14/2008 7:59:48 AM PST by wintertime

That deserves to be bookmarked and read over and over again!

83 posted on 12/14/2008 9:26:03 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)

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