The battle ground for the future of the free world,sir, is the classroom.
The conservative movement, is being decimated in the field of education. I do not underestimate the opposition, I have studied them and their movement for a quarter of a century. They are a formidable foe, who will fight tooth and nail to keep the bread on their table and react like cornered rats when their ability to spread their ideology is threatened. To me Marxism is a sinister form of mental paedeophilia.
In 1910 William Allen White ( a cohort of John Dewey) supported a scheme for paying parents for the loss of family income which resulted in a child going to school instead of working.
"A few states ," White wrote," notably in Ohio, make provision for the reimbursement of parents for the time children are in school," he adds " For the pittance a child earns is little compared with the need of the state for that child's judgement formed by atrained mind in making public sentiment when he is grown."
The reference to the "need of the state" is bone chilling.Reformers who write of "the need of the state" are, first cousins to every dictator and despot who ever lived.
There can no more be a reasonable left than a young lady can be a little bit pregnant.Perhaps you are willing to swallow Walzer's a kinder gentler Stalin.
Current prominent American Marxists
ijcr. We can't all grow up to be conservative. : ) Fortunately, this topic is not about marxism, it is about an article that argues the left should move toward a post-marxist ideology. Marxism is dying, has been for years, its deathbed is in academia. If you want to stand vigil ijcr go ahead, in fact, take a knife and stab it a few times for me. Stalin!? I think the last leftist on earth to defend that mass murderer died of old age. . . about twenty years ago. When did the last conservative to defend Pinochet die? Oh yeah, sorry, they're still out there defending away. Tokhtamish. Good points on globalization and the working class. I believe the only thing you got wrong in your entire post was the part about my minister being incompetent. He's doing just fine, but I will pass along your concern later this very morning. : ) You are exactly correct Tokhtamish, it does come down to those of us on the left who want to rebuild a base for mass support. That is the salient point in Walzer's argument. The debate is on but the outcome is clear; the left is in the process of finally discarding marxism! The question for the right is will you join the wake and help celebrate? After all, is this not what you've wanted all along? Or is marxism just too valuable as the ultimate straw man?