My Summer School A report from the 24th annual "intensive study" of Marxism

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 19, 2002 | BRIAN MCGUIRE

[Conservative Chicagoan]

In summer 1931, the journal Class Struggle noted an educational triumph: "The classes of our workers school have been unusually successful. More than 30 workers attended the class in volume one of Marx's Capital, the most popular of them all." The tradition continues.

[Mike Darancette]

Ms. Griss complained about "not even being able to find Medicaid in the phone book,"

What an Idiot!!!

[AntiScumbag]

another fine product of the n.e.a. gives us the benefit of her vast economic wisdom

"There should be free everything for everybody!"

no half-way measures, go all the way! yeah, baby! everything is free!

we pretend to work! you pretend to pay us!

but, there will be hope under the dictatorship of the proletariat, since brains will be free, maybe she'll get one, if the line isn't too long

[laredo44]

On the first day, as 20-odd people filed into the forum's lobby, someone muttered about Enron. That got the event's organizer, Lincoln Van Sluytman, going about how "the movement" benefits from capitalist pratfalls.

Whatever the morons in "the movement" gain through capitalist pratfalls, they more than give back in "the movement's" own utter failures, to produce anything of a workable nature, ever. They continually try to convince us that a nip here and a tuck there, and voila, a silk purse from a sow's ear. Meanwhile, all everyone is thinking is Cuba and North Korea.

The kindest thing anyone could do for this gathering would be to hang a banner above the entry way with the message from Dante's Hell: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

[laredo44]

"There should be free everything for everybody!"

This may not be as far fetched as it sounds. I hear Castro is teaching the noble Cubans to spin straw into gold.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Valin]

I would like universal health care

And I'd like a Lamborghini? Anyone care to buy me one? I'd be very grateful.

[tcostell]

You can't get a better quote than:

"There should be free everything for everybody!"

If someone tried to teach a class in Alchemy (turning lead into Gold) even though he had no documented evidence that it works, and several hundred years of modern science to prove that it didn't, how many people would show up?

The economics department gave up on Marxism half a century ago, but it's living on in the English department. It's a shame to see all these people striving toward something that will achieve a result which is diametrically opposed to what their goals are.