I am a graduate science student working on crop improvement. I am labelled as evil by these leftists. They have no sense of reality because they do mental gymnastics to convince themselves about anything. How will you feed 9 billion people by 2050? If marxism/communism is so great, then what happened with USSR and communist China where more people were murdered than by Nazis?
Well, I have to admit that Horowitz is right. I was a social science major myself when I graduated from college since I like to learn about other cultures, religions, men, women, the elderly, the poor, and the disabled. But I was able to tell that my professors were a bunch of leftist douchebags when being critical of the U.S and our capitalistic system. I'm not a supporter of crony capitalism but I am a strong defender of true capitalism, free enterprise, and choices.
3:00 - Horowitz's characterization of "radical" professors getting a lifetime job by towing some sort of ideological line is laughable idiocy. I teach at a college. Less than 30% of academic jobs today are non-tenure track positions. A majority are dismally-paid adjunct slots w/o benefits. This "man" is an absolute idiot scaring those who have no experience whatsoever in academia.
Read Chris Hedges' book Empire of Illusion, in particular, the chapter titled The Illusion of Wisdom.
@bapyou the fact that you teach anywhere says everything we need to know about our universities. tell me, do you sing the praise of stalin and the kgb's third world tyrant/terrorist pawns in class like you do on youtube?
@bapyou I have been through the college system. Horowitz is right on. You are wrong. Many adjuncts are also leftist indoctrinators. We aren't fooled by your ignorance or mendacity.
@faelismaegnus "Many adjuncts are also leftist indoctrinators."
The fact that they're adjuncts means that they do not have tenure, as Horrorwitz claims. I repeat: Less than 30% of academic positions are tenure track.
Furthermore the vast majority of economics departments, for example, are staffed with free market Friedmanites. Almost no one teaches Marx any longer.
I am neither ignorant nor a liar, though I'm not cowed by your red-baiting stupidity. You sir, like Horrorwitz, are an utter twit.
Learn how to organise a revolution??What a fantastic course!!!! Anti-capitalist?Is there any other revolution worth learning, dickhead??DO you want a job?or a stupid interview on TV, wanker?
Screw this neo con. Every University is flooded with Marxist ideology first, but neo cons come in a close second. Schools should also have TRUE Conservative voices, not just Neo Marxist and Neo Cons like Horowitz.
Condition students? Wow American students must automatically believe everything professors say and unable to form views of their own. I thought students were smart enough to make up their own minds.
@CMFrenchEsq It's not as simple as "students are smart enough to make up their own minds". One old saying reads, "if you tell someone a lie long enough, they will accept it as true". Logic dictates that this is true for students with impressionable young minds. Further, there's many philosophical (Nitezsche's Herd Mentality), and psychological (Pavlov, Behaviorism) perspectives which show strong potential for indoctrination when students are bombarded by biased, nonobjective leftist teachers.
@strong8action I am no philosopher or psychologist but attended university for 5 1/2 years and was exposed to some VERY left wing socialist professors and tutors who tried to convince me of their beliefs and views. Their attempt to force their beliefs onto me made me question my beliefs but they hardly made me left wing. I supported the War in Iraq and still do, take a favorable view to capitalism and the right of individuals and private property.
@CMFrenchEsq I never said ALL students are sheep. Indeed, some students are more strong minded than others. Some students have parents involved parents who counter balance the Marxist and Neo con bias in their schools. However, the average student is very young, therefore, their minds are naturally impressionable. This is why a critical education must present a non ideological curriculum. In addition to schools, much of the social programing starts in kindergarten and in media.
@strong8action It wasn't until my 30's that I had my "awakening" (i.e, understood the tremendous amount of social conditioning and acknowledged the hidden agendas). In the US, for example, people are programmed to be mindless CONSUMERS, and fight unjust wars. From cradle to grave, the subliminal message is designed to make us spend, spend, spend. Buy material objects, McDonald's cheese burghers, and support leftist & Neo con agendas. We don't live in a renaissance society like classical Greece.
Respond to this video... Come on not every American is programmed to be a mindless CONSUMER. What about the Amish? social workers? hippies living in communes in San Francisco? the nuns and priests in your many Christian churches? They have not become mindless consumers. Sure there DEFIANTLY is a lack of corporate social responsibility in America and while I am no socialist if you had more government regulation of banks like Australia then the GFC would not have hurt so much
@CMFrenchEsq I didn't say "every", or "all". I made a generalization. The Amish are only 1/4 of 1% of the population. The American public at large HAVE been programmed to be useless consumers. Feminism encouraged women to enter the workforce, then government increased tax revenues by 50%. Most families no longer cook meals, let alone eat together. We buy frozen crap from whoknowswhere. Kids are glued to the TV. After 9-11, George W. told his people to "go shopping". Society has become decadent.
@strong8action Yes you are making generalisations and this creates problems in your argument IMO. Labeling your fellow countrymen/women generally as "useless consumers" belittles and typecasts ALL middle Americans. Consumerism is hardly to blame for children being glued to the TV or not eating meals together. Where is the personal responsibility of the parents. Going shopping is hardly sinful in itself and after 9-11 such sentiment was necessary to boost morale and show the world the US goes on
@CMFrenchEsq I'm not arguing. I'm sharing my perspective. I'm not "belittling", I'm giving an intelligent critique of modern US society. The stereotype of a "fat, lazy, fast food eating, dumb American" DOES have a grain of truth. I don't like saying this, but I believe it to be true in light of evidence and my own observation. Generalizations don't create a problem when in a general argument.
@strong8action Arguing/sharing your perspective it is all semantics to me. Generalisations are fine in certain contexts but are more dangerous in academic debate IMO. I am sure in your observations you have seen many Americans who fit the stereotype you describe but I am trying to present a different opinion to your one sided view of middle America which challenges your argument in light of my reaction to this u tube clip.
@CMFrenchEsq Generalizations are useful in academic debate, so long as the information is not misrepresented. Example: Ninety percent of kids live less physically active lives than their parent's generation. Therefore, children are generally less active. TV stars are part of the mass media which I referred to. Although the mass media often imposes forms of social conditioning, that's different from a teacher. "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own influence".
@CMFrenchEsq My initial thesis was that students are especially susceptible to social conditioning, to think in conventional ways, because their minds are still developing. The solution is to provide children with a CRITICAL education which fosters critical thinking. Teachers shouldn't indoctrinate students with biased information designed to uphold orthodox rules, such as political correctness. They should present facts, all sides to a quarrel, and let students come to their own conclusions.
@strong8action Yes I am in total agreement teachers "should present facts, all sides to a quarrel" but I believe despite students attending politically biased schools they can come to their own opinions/conclusions in a democratic society like America where if they do not receive a critical education at school/university then they can look elsewhere. I think students developing minds are personally more susceptible to social conditioning of their friends and TV stars than biased teachers.
@strong8action Yes you did not say ALL and I acknowledge some are more impressionable than others as you say. I have never studied in America but I believe what you are saying that you are either a liberal socialist or neo con, you pick a side (or parents, location in US etc chose for you) and stay with it regardless of the arguments made. Unfortunately though EVERY educator will have a ideological biases when they are teaching but in a democracy there are at least alternative sources out there
I support the 9/11 family members in a new unbiased investigation into 9/11. Many Christians do! David Horowitz is an Illuminati scumbag! (The Tea Party Truther Dot Com)
I really hope a radical islamic state decides to start war with Isreal and America. All these political and idealogical debates mean nothing if they decide to take up arms against us. All that matters is us against them when the "Shit hits the fan", which it will.
@rankinaw If you think fox news tells the truth then you are very misinformed. Fox news is very biased with conservative and republican leanings. Glenn Beck spins propaganda and selling gold, Bill O'Reilly treats everyone like an idiot, Hannity is a neoliberal profiteer, Cavuto, etc, etc.... The media is not there to properly inform you, it is there to properly entertain you for profit.
@rankinaw- If you were a smart person who really wanted to know the truth then you'd watch everything for biases and errors. The best news, Daily Show and Colbert, aren't even supposed to be the news, yet somehow they actually give it to us straighter than CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc. Do your homework on Fox on the chalk board like Glenn Beck and see what connections you find and then tell me it isn't slanted or invested in one side or the other.
Being a sociology major and someone who has studied Marxism I gotta say this guy is wrong on so many levels. The shit that is spewing out of his mouth is ridiculous. Mind you, this is Fox News. What can you expect?
So it's purely biology that keeps women at home performing hours of unpaid labour? Don't get me started on the rest. What pathetic pieces of excrement.
"You have to believe that the differences between men and women that are not anatomical, are socially constructed."
Surely by logical definition this has to be true. And yet apparently these two find it hilarious.
Anyway, even if Horowitz's McCarthy-like conspiracy theory was correct, then the left-wing hegemony in universities would be nothing compared to the nationalist and neo-liberal hegemony created by other institutions. One of which he happens to be speaking on.
Can someone tell me when pro-islamist views dominated the media? It's unbelievable how many people think that all Muslims are terrorists, something that comes from the continued media portrayal as being so.
@CerebralAssassins ...it has to do with mohammad the inventor of islam...he was an illiterate slave owning child rapist and mass murderer. Islam to date has slaughtered 270 million people over the past 1000 years and continues to murder at will across the entire world. the fact that no muslim actually stands up and says terrorism is wrong is also the problem. The iman who is getting the ground zero mosque when asked to denounce terroris refused to do so.
@pulsatingremedy ...What the fuck has muslims killing Christians got to do with the Spanish Inquisition? You liberal fucks seem to think that by rushing in to defend islam then islam wins by default.....it doesn't, it reveals another tedious left winger who knows nothing about the hideous 'faith' called islam. Maybe you should piss off to the middle east foir 10 years and come back and tell us how life was in Iran.
The International & National Socialist hate this guy and are very afraid of him. Keep up all the fine work David. Many people just don't understand until you explain.
@eagleseaglessixers LOL he's not exactly a heavyweight... he makes Christopher Hitchens look fair and principled by comparison. This guy used to be a Maoist - those guys are a joke even on the left!
a five year old could tell you that this guy is a moron. I wonder how he made it out without himself being indoctrinated? you shame the civilized universe, but this disgrace is yours to experience you dumb animals at Fox and beyond
@salsa02 What a strange opinion... what I find odd about the idea of being a 'former Marxist' is that unlike being a 'former revolutionary socialist' it implies not a change in allegiances or politics but of taking up an understanding of class, of society, of capitalism and then rejecting it. Many who call themselves Marxist today believe the best we can hope for is Social Democracy (what Britain was under Labour until the end of the 1970s)
@flik221 I'm on the side of tyranny? What do you call a system where a handful of people decide where to allocate the wealth they accumulate from the labour of the majority? Of course, when you can't take on an idea intellectually, it is far easier to accuse the other side of 'indoctrination' and Jedi Mind Tricks. Horowitz is an opportunist trying to make a quick buck by yelling 'conspiracy'.
@flik221 Also, Gramsci's theory is an analysis (which Horowitz grossly misrepresents) of how the ideology of the ruling elite is filtered out into society at large. This is about Horowitz stamping on the idea of intellectual debate and questioning of ruling ideology. Who's the tyrant now?
@flik221 Also, what kind of hypocrite is aggressively against affirmative action yet campaigns to have universities enforce a quota of professors and courses which promote a conservative agenda? I'll tell you: David Horowitz!
@Mikhael0304 I certainly do approve of admissions quotas - universities have a responsibility to allow people from all sorts of social background and quotas are a way of doing that. As far as your snipe about me being against a fair balance of ideas, this amounts to thought policing and bullying. I bet you would be frothing at the mouth if David Horowitz was a leftist. YOU make me laugh.
@Mikhael0304 What you propose amounts to totalitarianism, not justice. Who would decide whether a professor's politics are adequate? Would a board say "I understand you have done some valuable work, but unfortunately you are not quite as right wing as what we were looking for. Sorry!" While Horowitz THINKS that this is what goes on informally amongst professors of the left, he is trying to institutionalise as dogmatic law! Your slogans are rather tiresome - learn to debate like a grown up.
@Schniddo Wow, do you have things good and backward! Letting someone have the basic freedom to present his side amounts to totalitarianism, yet bean-counting people by color is fine?
I don't care if the total balance is still tilted to the Left; I would like other persuasions to not feel suffocated into going along like they have with the AGW nonsense, for example. Or conservative students feeling pressured to parrot Leftism to protect a good grade.
@Mikhael0304 "Letting someone have the basic freedom to present his side amounts to totalitarianism" No, stop misrepresenting me. What I am against is 'bean counting' professors according to their political leanings "I don't care if the total balance is still tilted to the Left" Well Horowitz does, that's the point of his Education Bill of Rights which he campaigns for There is such thing as the 'battle of ideas' and I'm afraid the one's you would like to come out on top won't necessarily do so.
@Mikhael0304 "Conservative students feeling pressured to parrot Leftism to protect a good grade" They don't have to, a well argued piece gets you good grades regardless. A good friend of mine is a historian and is conservative/libertarian in his thinking. I may disagree with him on many issues, but he is a very intelligent fellow and a hard worker so he gets good grades. Horowitz is a snake oil salesman.
@Schniddo Sorry to keep going on, this interview is just packed with straw man arguments and untruths. What he says about gender studies for example is just absurd - aspects of gender ARE socially constructed e.g. pink used to be associated with boys, blue with girls but EVEN IF HE DISAGREES he refuses to even acknowledge that there is an argument at all! Don't you see how he invalidates all opinions that are not his own? JUST like he did when he was a loony Maoist in the 60s!
@Schniddo one example such as color does not make a cultural argument for socially constructed gender difference. Most non genital gender differences in men and women are NATURAL and not socially dictated.Try reading some neuroscience and biology of gender sometime, clown.
@RobAndrew1970 Sex and gender are two different things. Of course there are differences between the two but these are much exaggerated. The point of this kind of work in gender studies etc. is to show how far general practices are culturally determined as opposed to biologically determined. There is a lot more nuance and disagreement in gender studies than Horowitz let's on, but he has his own agenda. Do you even 'read'? Philistine.
the most important thing, i ever learned in life is that we die ,second people waste their life thinking about shit that's not important, and never understand what its like to be humane .
its no small coincidence that he finds a warm welcome on fox.horowitz is a rancid little worm and the ugliness is inscribed on his face.look where unregulated capitalism has brought everybody today.his and many others scaremongering as to america becoming marxist is so laughable-only the most feeble minded view this as a possibility.do even a superficial search on this clown and find out how corrupt and shoddy he is.
@hotstixx Do you deny that capatalism is the reason for this country's economic success since its inception? Do you agree that communism/Marxism has historically failed everywhere it has been implemented?
@hourglass44 if by capitalism,you mean unregulated capitalism and if by unregulated capitalism and success,you mean exploiting the market,strategic protectionism,cultural imperialism..destabilising foriegn governments and expoiting and controlling foreign resources..amongst many other crimes to maintain its position as empire then yes,i would look to alternatives.its pure scaremongering to state that the u.s is going to turn into the most frigid kind of socialism.
@hotstixx Jesus, you need to relax - you Noam Chomsky disciple. No, America isn't the evil empire exploiting the poor, brown people of the third world. Get over yourself. First of all, you are totally reading all kinds of conclusions into my post. This is the clearest indicator of (1) poor critical thinking, (2) an agenda, and (3) a relatively bitter personality. LIGHTEN UP.
@hourglass44 i beg your pardon.you post a comment about a serious subject and now you want me to lighten up.do you see a capricious spectrum when you wake in the morning ?i could cite case history thats well documented as to americas role in various "enterprises" around the globe-its very well known.go back to zanadu with your pollyannaish insular little attitude.mickey mouse has got your number.
@hotstixx You do realize that Horowitz was a 60s Marxist radical himself, and he was friends with Bill Ayers. Do you not think, then, that he has credibility to speak to the motivations of people such as this?
@hourglass44 you undoubtedley read radical son.it never ceases to amaze me how conservatives have been lead by the nose to actually vote against their interests.horrowitz wants everyone back in the 1950s.its sentimentalism,nostalgia.strong church,repressed family and authoritarianism.you know.keep people dumbed down and easy to manipulate.he certainly isnt a man of the enlightenment...and moreover see if you cant spot the pathology of the man.
@hotstixx Nope, never read "Radical Son." Let me give you a sincere piece of advise for your own well-being: you need to calm down. Try to appreciate the good in people instead of looking at only the negative. Again, you have drawn up a very ornate fantasy - none of which I or Horowitz have spoken to ("strong church, repressed family, back to the 50s, etc"). Try to enjoy life. Be more charitable and forgiving, rather than harsh and judgmental. Trust me on this.
@hourglass44 jesus it gets worse.what sort of banality is this ?next you will be talking about positivity.im pefectly well able to be "nice" to people and see the good in people..why i even.. like people.oh,you know,i should have learnt to either dismiss or ignore people like you.such wishy washy rubbish.
@hotstixx Jackass - I can be just as mean and critical as anyone. Rather than tear you apart and your bullshit liberal fantasies, I am trying to help you. GET OVER YOURSELF - SEEK HELP!
@hourglass44 oh please do tear me and my liberal fantasies apart..oh sorry, surely that should be marxist fantasies..no ? and the presumptiousness of "helping me". lmfao. do you understand anything about horowitz and his brownshirts ? go and read something about dialectics/argument...and learn whats at stake here as oppossed your touchy feely approach.or please begin showing me the light.
@hotstixx I know little about Horowitz beyond this video (and others), which is a moot point. He is the messenger. I have spent 7 yrs in SE universities, and I can attest to the bias he speaks of. You have no critical thinking skills. You rant about topics which WERE NOT DISCUSSED ON THIS VIDEO, so how can anyone debate you? I've asked simple questions of you, but you ignore them and move on to your dreamworld. QUESTION 1: Do you dispute that there is a heavy liberal bias in US universities?
@hourglass44 a moot point ?? comments above and below are on this video..no ?horowitz is the point and i have read widely on the subject-therein the difference..no ? i dont enter into debates with those that clearly know nothing other than a few videos.i was waiting for you to assert something but you even failed to differentiate between capitalism and unregulated capitalism and jumped on the usual hysterical garbage about america becoming marxist.
@hotstixx Dude, you are insane. This video is about liberal indoctrination going on in US universities. THAT IS WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT. Do you want to talk about that or not?
@hourglass44 ok,a little humanity so...dude.its much broader than,he said gently.these are culture wars..well publicised.you and i are mortal enemies lol-but theres a little truth in that.you were educated in a se university so you are having difficulty trancending your cultural inheritance.horowitz is a cautionary figure who wants to patrol the academy like a mccarthy figure full of poisonous paranoia.listen man,i actually have to run now,the baby is crying.will catch up again.peace.
@hotstixx I appreciate the polite gesture. Again, it is impossible to debate when you are changing the subject. I didn't bring up capitalism vs. unregulated capitalism (which, I guess, is anarchy), neither did Horowitz; you did. You also state that I "have jumped on the usual hysterical garbage about america becoming marxist." This is flatly wrong, and I don't know where you got this. You do not listen. You are arguing with a straw man. I don't know who it is, but it's not me or David Horowitz.
@hourglass44 ok,i see you are sincere but please read a little about horowitz.do a search without your ideoligical specs on.the resonances are many and none of them are pretty.do another on american empire.youtube is not suited to rigorous and expansive debate so a short hand is used and i assumed you might be part of a well worn debate.its late in this part of the world so i must bid you good night.
@hotstixx Do you deny that capatalism is the reason for this country's economic success since its inception? Do you agree that communism/Marxism has historically failed everywhere it has been implemented?
This is consistent with my personal life experiences. Those who project the most arrogance are typically those with the least experience and/or knowledge. Would you be so kind as to bloviate somewhere else?
What's most disturbing is the misandrist, bigoted and close-minded views of the poor indoctrinated folk who respond unthinkingly to this type of thing.
wow, if this is the kind of intellectual argument we are up against then the revolution is going to be easier than i thought. also, i love the war on women studies that these ideologues are waging as it reveals the unabashedly misogynist character of neoliberalism. the oppression of women is critical for the sustained operation of capitalism and all the right-wingers know this - and they aren't hiding it.
I can confirm this, as a mature student in a Canadian university. Place is called Bishop's University. It's discusting what they teach here. People ought to be behind bars.
Many of the universities have become Brain Wash centers for the extreme Left. Along with show business and the Media these RED bastions have decided to wreck America by way of it's students and artists.
@andy08s and yet you can compare the "poor" of one country (the US) and show how they are infinitely wealthier than the poor in, say, Malaysia, China, India, or Cuba
@Zaxxon2008 poor is poor no matter what economic system you are in. poverty and wealth is not just measured by once person's abilities to be good in economic affairs, but also by once person legal claim toward economic dollar. why did we diminished slavery? does light goes on in your head?
a "poor" man in the US with cable tv, internet, and a car, but earning under $17k/yr live by far a greater life than the subsistence farmer below the poverty level in Cuba
Really? When is the last time you lived consistently at $17k a year in the U.S.? You speak from experience? I'm guessing not. I did. For a few years. Easier? To live on oatmeal and Govt. Surplus peanut butter for weeks at time? To beg at food pantries of churches and the Salvation Army? To go cold in the winter at times because oil bills were too much to pay for because taxes hiked up the price? Cable? Nope. Internet? Nope. Car? Barely. 1 car for 2 working adults and 3 chilren.
I worked as much as I could. My family worked as much as they could. We had decent grades in school, but who could afford college? We had our mouths to feed. No drugs were being used, no alchohol was being consumed. 1 out of the 5 of us smoked. No major health issues were present. It was dealing with working for minimum wage with no post-high school education. We weren't unique.
Tell me again how well poor people live in the U.S.
@Omnicronimous your reading comprehension skills are on par with that of a 3yr old
you only further proved my point -
a "poor" man in the US with cable tv, internet, and a car, but earning under $17k/yr live by far a greater life than the subsistence farmer below the poverty level in Cuba
My reading comprehension is just fine. You make bogus claims you can't back up. Explain what specific things about life for an American making less than $17K a year are better than Cuban farmers? You insist they have cable tv, Internet (it is spelled with a capital "I" btw), and a car... I just told you that my family didn't. There are plenty of people in your <$17k income group that don't have those things. That struggle to feed themselves and their families.
@Omnicronimous internet is a formal name now? news to britannica, i better go tell them... be right back
ok, now that thats done... oh wait, i rarely capitalize anything on youtube (it is spelled Anything, btw) but you better be sure and point out how i dont use apostrophes either... this place is so formal though, i suppose i should start
1) If you don't know or choose to use proper capitalization, punctuation, or grammar and mock someone else as being "formal" for doing so, it doesn't exactly lend credence to your side of an argument in which you insult the other person's intellect.
2) While I concede that there are advantages to living in the U.S. vs. Cuba regardless of income, the specific income group you speak of includes many families that live in horrible conditions.
@Omnicronimous i refuse to begin listing all the ways an American earning $17,000/yr is better off than a Cuban. if you believe otherwise, you are a dolt.
a LUCKY Cuban doesnt even earn HALF that of an American living at the poverty level
but you are an angry, bitter, defeated little man who has given up and just wants to sit there and take your lot in life you feel was given to you, rather than create something better for yourself
good luck with your family of 8 or whatever making < $17k/yr
3) Furthermore, you assume that I am still very poor while I clearly used past tense language in referring to when I was poor. I understand though. That's more of that "formal" language I use and it confused you. 3yr old reading comprehension? To make it clear - I am no longer poor.
4) You project your views with arrogance, as if poverty is just a condition of choice. Ultimately your submissions here only prove that you're naive, ignorant, and arrogant.
you cant take it when presented with fatc after fact, so dont attack the message, attack the presentation
you may as well cry - "i dont care about his actions because you said OJ was a 'murderer,' and i prefer the term 'acquitted homicidal man' so i wont listen!" waaaaa - waaaa
you crybaby LOL
and boy-oh-boy are you ever a sad pussy for making that last post crying ABOUT me, but didnt post it TO me
If you had put together anything coherent in that last post, I'd attempt to respond in kind. As for the attempt at insults, you reveal a greater degree of immaturity with every post. I'm done with you. Feel free to continue on your own though if you so wish.
try to keep your supposedly minimum wage job for more than a year (ie- dont get fired for throwing a fit cuz you're mad you get paid min wage)
i bet if you manage to keep that job for awhile, you might -just might- get a raise!
perhaps im a bad example to be criticizing you. i have never had a job paying minimum wage, before or after college. but then again, i never looked for a job flippin burgers. if i had, i wouldnt have expected more
@Zaxxon2008 no, we use same term to define same things. can anybody prove that bill gates is 50,000,000,000 more productive than hobo? it is beyond the reason of economics. it is not productivities or abilities that makes person richer, but LEGAL CLAIM TOWARD DOLLAR that is caught in net of economic means that that person has claim toward. IT IS THE RIGHTS NOT ABILITIES THAT MAKE ONE POOR OR RICH. Slavory was abolish why?
@andy08s you end up using symantics to change the playing field in a feeble attempt to justify your ideals, after having your argument challenged and shown foolish
after all, as you initially claimed - "you cannot say wealthier without compare it to what is poor, one cannot exist without other"
and then stated - " poor is poor no matter what economic system you are in"
followed by a feeble attempt to justify by claiming - "poverty and wealth is not just measured by once person's abilities"
The same people that protested everything in the 60s and 70s now teach at universities and tell our children they cant question ANYTHING. This is the greatest insult, they tell the students, you have no rights. You are punished for questioning global warming or socialism. Wake you youth, you are dead. These radicals are projecting themselves onto you. They were the braindead ones. They took drugs, beat their women, left children with no support, and spit in cops faces.
Hobo and rich have one life to live, it is valued at one price and both of them will end up six feet under in the perfect eternity box office. But one struggled in life other lived it that is not solely based on one persons abilities and productivities. this is the facts of life
@mfarkasmusic bill gates wealth is cosisted with 39% of dealing with government contracts, think about schools, it is not his productivity but LEGAL CLAIM TO DOLLAR, that what is generating wealth for somebody and poverty for others. wealth is not evil but it comes at expense of poverty. i am not socialist nor capitalists nor any much anything. but i see and i talk.
If I get rich because of my company, its grows, people above me also get rich, and we hire new people. NEW JOBS, MORE MONEY, BETTER ECONOMY, RICHER PEOPLE!
You say you are nothing it's because you are an anarchist.
@SturmKorps there is no economic theory to prove how come bill gates presumed "abilities & productivities" are 50,000,000,000 times better than hobo. it is not once only efforts that make once a person in economy it is also the claim of dollar from economyc abilities by law or legalized theft. no body said anarchy is bad, no one try it so what it is also way of life
If you can prove to me that Bill Gates is 50,000,000,000 times is more able than last hobo on the street than you can reclaim original Capitalistic Idea.
How come in USA there are SUPER RICH, people who own tons of millions of money, and yet there are millions of people who work for rat's pay, such as minimum wage. I talk to one who made like a million dollars one year it sounds big number. But it is simple not truth that those SUPER RICH, they have better abilities than others who got rat's pay.
Your mind is made up. When we lose our freedoms, get taxed into equality, lose many Constitutional protections by Obama'send-around maneuverings like the 2nd Amendment, mass unionization and cronyism, deconstruct our military, allow for no border control, ect. you might have your eyes opened. These are all Alinsky-inspired features Obama and the Left are implementing.
Big corporations will typically support Republican Party and will occasionally support Democratic Party when Republicans lose mass of support.(Like they did with Bush) And it is these corporations that controls mainstream media. This is not Leftist phenomena. No mainstream medias in U.S. will have any anti-imperialist view. Even with our current healthcare reform, opinions of those who supports single-payer healthcare wasn't even covered.
Like I said, colleges and universities are only place in U.S. where there are relative "balance" between Right and Left. "Entire Political Science Depts have been taken over by left-leaning elitists"? We have some Leftists and many liberals. If we consider your misguided understanding of political spectrum, Democrats are "Leftists", and thus have "taken over" the "[e]ntire Political Science Depts". But reality is that really isn't true at all.
But if we look at Economics in major colleges/universities, they rarely teach Marxist economics but rather heavily emphasize on Adam Smith to Milton Friedman. To assume that students have no freedom of opinion due to having their grades at stake is nonsense. I used to be Right-winger during my college years and I voiced my opinions against race mixing and abortion as well as defended whites' right to be proud of their race and so on. I was criticized but was never silenced.
Our freedom have already been reduced with racist profiling against minorities as well as economic injustice with tax cuts for rich. Obama even disregarded EFCA which suppose to give workers right to form their own union if majority agrees. Leftists are highly critical of Obama's bailout, universal healthcare, war in Afghanistan, occupation of Iraq, his supports for Israel as well as his passivity for LGBT's right and his silence against racism. But then again, FOX is your world.
You are so far removed from the reality of why our republic was founded and what true economic freedom is you're like talking to a wall. Entire Political Science Depts have been taken over by left-leaning elitists. All of the major media outlets are owned by a consolidated group of globalist leftist bankers who all belong to the same think-tanks and openly state their desire for global gov't. With themselves in the inner cirlce of power, of course.
"[W]hy our republic was founded"? It is undeniable and is something to be celebrated that common people were capable to unite and liberate themselves from British rules. American Revolution is historical heritage of Left. It's not a historical heritage of Right. "[E]conomic freedom"? This is loaded term. Thomas Jefferson believed in smaller central government so farmers and other common people can make political participation rather than industrialists and bankers.
He even stated that more dominant corporations becomes, it will eliminate democracy as we know it. One of major Right-wing rhetoric(and your misguided notion) of "economic freedom" is it only provide greater freedom for corporate domination while it significantly reduce freedom of mass. And it is this corporate domination that both far-Right(Republicans) and center-Right(Democrats) supports and they also get supported by them.
Leftists supports single-payer healthcare over Obama's "universal healthcare". This is clear indication of Right-wing leaning nature of our mainstream media. In France, they invite everyone from Christians to socialists while we lack such diversity. In Norway, communist journalists have their own columns in mainstream newspaper while we don't have any of that. We only have corporate medias that are being covered by conservatives and liberals.
Most of Political Science Depts have diverse references from Burke, Rouseau, Mills and Marx and more. But if we actually look at the studies of Marxism, they reduce it into academic discipline rather than actual revolutionary politic. This is called "academic Marxism" by revolutionary Marxists and they highly critical of it. Horowitz have mentioned Gramsci and Gramsci is perfect example where they reduced him into figure for cultural studies and semiotics.
My grades were never at stake due to my opinions. Horowitz's argument is nonsense and really have no prove since he himself have admitted that he never saw any lectures of these radical professors. My "mind is made up"? After several years of being mindless nationalist Right-wing conservative, yes, my mind is made up against such trash. Lose our freedom? We are already losing our freedom from both Republicans and Democrats when LGBT people have no rights.
Horowitz is a wac job - this guy is too much fun to listen to - he's no smarter than Hannity - it's claimed Hannity has a journalism degree but that's just too hard to believe. These two are great entertainment nevertheless.
@billoakesattablthree Haha. You need to look into Horowitz's history. He'll forget more about the world than you'll ever know. Typical lefty, a blind follower who trusts his leaders all the way to ruins, and mocks those who can help them understand the truth. You'd rather drown in your naivelty rather than grab a life raft.
"Indoctrination"? So David Horowitz actually think students can be "indoctrinated" by taking these courses? This really reflects his conservatism. They view that mass are dupes who are easily indoctrinated. Their mindless mechanism is students are all going to become Marxists if they are educated under Marxist professor and are going to become conservatives if they were taught under conservative professor. This is an insult against students who believe they can become free thinkers.
@unorthodoxtrotsky With 2-4 years of bias teaching on young minds with their grades at stake who never previously never learned the alternative political philosophies do become heavily influenced by Marxism. Crafty professors dress up communist ideology with constant mocking of the free-enterprise system all the time.
There are young students who go to private Catholic schools. Do you think they all become "indoctrinated" into Catholicism? "2-4 years of bias teaching"? Do you actually think that such "bias teaching" reflects totality of "2-4 years"? Most of students take these courses as general requirements and students have freedom to select courses (among say, "Political Science" or "Anthropology" and so on). Grades aren't at stake based upon how one agree with a professor.
Grades are determined by class participation and one's own analytical skills. Your generalization normally happens in private Catholic schools and most of students don't get "indoctrinated" under such institutions. Funny thing is Horowitz himself have admitted that he have never seen how these class works under such radical professors. He admitted that he was making conclusion based upon professors' references for teaching. And none of these courses are mandatory either.
"Alternative political philosophies"? We live and preserve our subsistence in capitalist society. Even those who are struggling against it have to somehow compromise with it. What is "alternative political philosophies" under such society? Free market? No, it's Marxism and other radical politics. We can study Milton Friedman and have better understanding of our economic system but that's not an alternative. Dressing up of communism have already happened under McCarthyism.
If we need "alternative", we need to "undress" such McCarthyist indoctrination by studying it with actual references. And even that won't be "balance" in favor of radical politics. "So many leftists"? In U.S.? U.S. is most Right-wing leaning nation compare to third world countries or Europe. Our mainstream medias are highly Right-wing leaning. CNN's Anderson Cooper always say that they try to have "balance" between Right and Left but he never invited Leftist guesses.
Antonio Gramsci concluded that proletariat can't no longer make revolution? Where does this "ex-Marxist" come up with this ridiculous conclusion? Gramsci never abandoned the idea of proletarian revolution. Gradual changes of capitalist society through various reform isn't anything new in Marxist circle. Both Lenin and Luxemburg recognized this. What Gramsci believed was "bourgeois hegemony" should be replaced to "proletarian hegemony" after socialist revolution.
@unorthodoxtrotsky If it wasn't successful why are their so many leftists ? Why do advertisers spend billions of dollars each year if people cannot be influenced to buy products which are made to look fantastic. You are naive and another syptom of the problem. A clone of pseudo intellectual teaching. your comments prove this.
The fact that most of Americans think that Democratic Party is Leftist party indicates how Right-leaning we are. And colleges and universities are only places where we have relative balance and we have someone like Horowitz complaining about it. And influence of advertisement which is deeply rooted in our society from our upbringing as kids is different from "2-4 years of bias teachings" as you have put it. One needs conscious endeavor to be radicalized than taking some courses.
After what Horowitz did to the memory of Howard Zinn I hope to live long enough to urinate on Horowitz' grave. He is so emblematic of everything wrong with the neo-con right.
@reziztanze "Yes, because he's a Jew sticking up for fellow Jews."
Not quite, his treatment of Jewish Howard Zinn was among the most shameful acts any neo-con nut case has ever done. Horowitz isn't sticking up for Jews, he's a rabid venal warmongering fanatic sticking up for violence and un-American political behavior.
David Horowitz used to be a pal to nitwits like william Ayers now the scumbag is pals with Sean Hannity.Horowitz is still a scumbag but has just switched nitwits.He went from radical Marxist to conservative neocons.
Merriam Webster's collegiate dictionary defines liberalism as, "A political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties." Nice try, next time actually look a word up before you give it a false definition.
I took the time since you were too lazy to copy and paste:
"c : a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties; specifically : such a philosophy that considers government as a crucial instrument for amelioration of social inequities (as those involving race, gender, or class)" (from the Merriam Webster on-line dictionary)
A "Tribute To Michael Jackson"!? Bwahahaha! What a wuss you must be.
BAPYOU made reference to that and when I saw it on your homepage I burst out laughing. You refer to teaching at the community college level as "babysitting"? Michael Jackson enjoyed taking care of children, too.
I am a graduate science student working on crop improvement. I am labelled as evil by these leftists. They have no sense of reality because they do mental gymnastics to convince themselves about anything. How will you feed 9 billion people by 2050? If marxism/communism is so great, then what happened with USSR and communist China where more people were murdered than by Nazis?
260191894 19 hours ago
you want a job? come on my show and lets turn everyone paranoid about leftists conspiracies.
It's like the red scare all over again.
ntnima 2 weeks ago
I took women's studies in college (as a man) ... it's an INCREDIBLY socialist environment.
SanguineBullet667 1 month ago
@SanguineBullet667 wasn't my major
SanguineBullet667 1 month ago
Well, I have to admit that Horowitz is right. I was a social science major myself when I graduated from college since I like to learn about other cultures, religions, men, women, the elderly, the poor, and the disabled. But I was able to tell that my professors were a bunch of leftist douchebags when being critical of the U.S and our capitalistic system. I'm not a supporter of crony capitalism but I am a strong defender of true capitalism, free enterprise, and choices.
IcedCoffee81 2 months ago
Marxists who attack Horowitz are twits. :D
faelismaegnus 3 months ago
Jesus is the answer. He is the ONLY way to the Father in Heaven. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, repent, obey and be saved!
edadan2009 4 months ago
this is such bullshit, typical fox
djamorpheus 7 months ago
3:00 - Horowitz's characterization of "radical" professors getting a lifetime job by towing some sort of ideological line is laughable idiocy. I teach at a college. Less than 30% of academic jobs today are non-tenure track positions. A majority are dismally-paid adjunct slots w/o benefits. This "man" is an absolute idiot scaring those who have no experience whatsoever in academia.
Read Chris Hedges' book Empire of Illusion, in particular, the chapter titled The Illusion of Wisdom.
bapyou 7 months ago
@bapyou the fact that you teach anywhere says everything we need to know about our universities. tell me, do you sing the praise of stalin and the kgb's third world tyrant/terrorist pawns in class like you do on youtube?
pushups2345 6 months ago
@bapyou I have been through the college system. Horowitz is right on. You are wrong. Many adjuncts are also leftist indoctrinators. We aren't fooled by your ignorance or mendacity.
faelismaegnus 4 months ago
@faelismaegnus "Many adjuncts are also leftist indoctrinators."
The fact that they're adjuncts means that they do not have tenure, as Horrorwitz claims. I repeat: Less than 30% of academic positions are tenure track.
Furthermore the vast majority of economics departments, for example, are staffed with free market Friedmanites. Almost no one teaches Marx any longer.
I am neither ignorant nor a liar, though I'm not cowed by your red-baiting stupidity. You sir, like Horrorwitz, are an utter twit.
bapyou 4 months ago
The left has won the culture war 40 years ago.
helpdonate1 7 months ago
Learn how to organise a revolution??What a fantastic course!!!! Anti-capitalist?Is there any other revolution worth learning, dickhead??DO you want a job?or a stupid interview on TV, wanker?
Juezazo 7 months ago
Been out to California a few times. The sooner that state falls into the sea, the better.
Darkrunner1975 8 months ago
Screw this neo con. Every University is flooded with Marxist ideology first, but neo cons come in a close second. Schools should also have TRUE Conservative voices, not just Neo Marxist and Neo Cons like Horowitz.
strong8action 10 months ago
Condition students? Wow American students must automatically believe everything professors say and unable to form views of their own. I thought students were smart enough to make up their own minds.
CMFrenchEsq 10 months ago
@CMFrenchEsq They are. This is bullshit.
jimbobanalbeats 10 months ago
@CMFrenchEsq It's not as simple as "students are smart enough to make up their own minds". One old saying reads, "if you tell someone a lie long enough, they will accept it as true". Logic dictates that this is true for students with impressionable young minds. Further, there's many philosophical (Nitezsche's Herd Mentality), and psychological (Pavlov, Behaviorism) perspectives which show strong potential for indoctrination when students are bombarded by biased, nonobjective leftist teachers.
strong8action 10 months ago
@strong8action I am no philosopher or psychologist but attended university for 5 1/2 years and was exposed to some VERY left wing socialist professors and tutors who tried to convince me of their beliefs and views. Their attempt to force their beliefs onto me made me question my beliefs but they hardly made me left wing. I supported the War in Iraq and still do, take a favorable view to capitalism and the right of individuals and private property.
CMFrenchEsq 10 months ago
@CMFrenchEsq I never said ALL students are sheep. Indeed, some students are more strong minded than others. Some students have parents involved parents who counter balance the Marxist and Neo con bias in their schools. However, the average student is very young, therefore, their minds are naturally impressionable. This is why a critical education must present a non ideological curriculum. In addition to schools, much of the social programing starts in kindergarten and in media.
strong8action 10 months ago
@strong8action It wasn't until my 30's that I had my "awakening" (i.e, understood the tremendous amount of social conditioning and acknowledged the hidden agendas). In the US, for example, people are programmed to be mindless CONSUMERS, and fight unjust wars. From cradle to grave, the subliminal message is designed to make us spend, spend, spend. Buy material objects, McDonald's cheese burghers, and support leftist & Neo con agendas. We don't live in a renaissance society like classical Greece.
strong8action 10 months ago
Respond to this video... Come on not every American is programmed to be a mindless CONSUMER. What about the Amish? social workers? hippies living in communes in San Francisco? the nuns and priests in your many Christian churches? They have not become mindless consumers. Sure there DEFIANTLY is a lack of corporate social responsibility in America and while I am no socialist if you had more government regulation of banks like Australia then the GFC would not have hurt so much
CMFrenchEsq 10 months ago
@CMFrenchEsq I didn't say "every", or "all". I made a generalization. The Amish are only 1/4 of 1% of the population. The American public at large HAVE been programmed to be useless consumers. Feminism encouraged women to enter the workforce, then government increased tax revenues by 50%. Most families no longer cook meals, let alone eat together. We buy frozen crap from whoknowswhere. Kids are glued to the TV. After 9-11, George W. told his people to "go shopping". Society has become decadent.
strong8action 10 months ago
@strong8action Yes you are making generalisations and this creates problems in your argument IMO. Labeling your fellow countrymen/women generally as "useless consumers" belittles and typecasts ALL middle Americans. Consumerism is hardly to blame for children being glued to the TV or not eating meals together. Where is the personal responsibility of the parents. Going shopping is hardly sinful in itself and after 9-11 such sentiment was necessary to boost morale and show the world the US goes on
CMFrenchEsq 10 months ago
@CMFrenchEsq I'm not arguing. I'm sharing my perspective. I'm not "belittling", I'm giving an intelligent critique of modern US society. The stereotype of a "fat, lazy, fast food eating, dumb American" DOES have a grain of truth. I don't like saying this, but I believe it to be true in light of evidence and my own observation. Generalizations don't create a problem when in a general argument.
strong8action 10 months ago
@strong8action Arguing/sharing your perspective it is all semantics to me. Generalisations are fine in certain contexts but are more dangerous in academic debate IMO. I am sure in your observations you have seen many Americans who fit the stereotype you describe but I am trying to present a different opinion to your one sided view of middle America which challenges your argument in light of my reaction to this u tube clip.
CMFrenchEsq 10 months ago
@CMFrenchEsq Generalizations are useful in academic debate, so long as the information is not misrepresented. Example: Ninety percent of kids live less physically active lives than their parent's generation. Therefore, children are generally less active. TV stars are part of the mass media which I referred to. Although the mass media often imposes forms of social conditioning, that's different from a teacher. "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own influence".
strong8action 10 months ago
@CMFrenchEsq My initial thesis was that students are especially susceptible to social conditioning, to think in conventional ways, because their minds are still developing. The solution is to provide children with a CRITICAL education which fosters critical thinking. Teachers shouldn't indoctrinate students with biased information designed to uphold orthodox rules, such as political correctness. They should present facts, all sides to a quarrel, and let students come to their own conclusions.
strong8action 10 months ago
@strong8action Yes I am in total agreement teachers "should present facts, all sides to a quarrel" but I believe despite students attending politically biased schools they can come to their own opinions/conclusions in a democratic society like America where if they do not receive a critical education at school/university then they can look elsewhere. I think students developing minds are personally more susceptible to social conditioning of their friends and TV stars than biased teachers.
CMFrenchEsq 10 months ago
@strong8action Yes you did not say ALL and I acknowledge some are more impressionable than others as you say. I have never studied in America but I believe what you are saying that you are either a liberal socialist or neo con, you pick a side (or parents, location in US etc chose for you) and stay with it regardless of the arguments made. Unfortunately though EVERY educator will have a ideological biases when they are teaching but in a democracy there are at least alternative sources out there
CMFrenchEsq 10 months ago
I used to like David & his ideas, but now he calls Ron Paul & his supporters "anti-Semites" for not wanting to be attached at the hip with Israel.
Fuck him! He's now just another propagandistic shill for Israel
dgl1962 11 months ago
I support the 9/11 family members in a new unbiased investigation into 9/11. Many Christians do! David Horowitz is an Illuminati scumbag! (The Tea Party Truther Dot Com)
Theteapartytruther1 11 months ago
I really hope a radical islamic state decides to start war with Isreal and America. All these political and idealogical debates mean nothing if they decide to take up arms against us. All that matters is us against them when the "Shit hits the fan", which it will.
rankinaw 11 months ago
@rankinaw So do I, then you can nuke the bastards to oblivion!
svartekaptenen 11 months ago
Fox news is the only media outlet that tells truth. Every other media outlet in America has their head so far up their ass it isn't even funny
rankinaw 11 months ago
@rankinaw If you think fox news tells the truth then you are very misinformed. Fox news is very biased with conservative and republican leanings. Glenn Beck spins propaganda and selling gold, Bill O'Reilly treats everyone like an idiot, Hannity is a neoliberal profiteer, Cavuto, etc, etc.... The media is not there to properly inform you, it is there to properly entertain you for profit.
tgarcia92 11 months ago
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tgarcia92 11 months ago
@rankinaw- If you were a smart person who really wanted to know the truth then you'd watch everything for biases and errors. The best news, Daily Show and Colbert, aren't even supposed to be the news, yet somehow they actually give it to us straighter than CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc. Do your homework on Fox on the chalk board like Glenn Beck and see what connections you find and then tell me it isn't slanted or invested in one side or the other.
tgarcia92 11 months ago
Being a sociology major and someone who has studied Marxism I gotta say this guy is wrong on so many levels. The shit that is spewing out of his mouth is ridiculous. Mind you, this is Fox News. What can you expect?
Brettsky8 11 months ago
So it's purely biology that keeps women at home performing hours of unpaid labour? Don't get me started on the rest. What pathetic pieces of excrement.
theparadox89 1 year ago
"You have to believe that the differences between men and women that are not anatomical, are socially constructed."
Surely by logical definition this has to be true. And yet apparently these two find it hilarious.
Anyway, even if Horowitz's McCarthy-like conspiracy theory was correct, then the left-wing hegemony in universities would be nothing compared to the nationalist and neo-liberal hegemony created by other institutions. One of which he happens to be speaking on.
ammadeus88 1 year ago
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zc642 1 year ago
Can someone tell me when pro-islamist views dominated the media? It's unbelievable how many people think that all Muslims are terrorists, something that comes from the continued media portrayal as being so.
CerebralAssassins 1 year ago
@CerebralAssassins ...it has to do with mohammad the inventor of islam...he was an illiterate slave owning child rapist and mass murderer. Islam to date has slaughtered 270 million people over the past 1000 years and continues to murder at will across the entire world. the fact that no muslim actually stands up and says terrorism is wrong is also the problem. The iman who is getting the ground zero mosque when asked to denounce terroris refused to do so.
Deus2Vexillum 1 year ago
@Deus2Vexillum
And the inquisition was also an Islamic conspiracy?
pulsatingremedy 1 year ago
@pulsatingremedy ...What the fuck has muslims killing Christians got to do with the Spanish Inquisition? You liberal fucks seem to think that by rushing in to defend islam then islam wins by default.....it doesn't, it reveals another tedious left winger who knows nothing about the hideous 'faith' called islam. Maybe you should piss off to the middle east foir 10 years and come back and tell us how life was in Iran.
Deus2Vexillum 1 year ago
@Deus2Vexillum
My point was that every religion has stupid people in them.
pulsatingremedy 1 year ago
Yeah nice one; play a clip from notoriously sane and genuine news network Fox. This is just a lump of crap.
EclecticSceptic 1 year ago
An issue out of nothing. Americans are trivial minded.
grecobactrian 1 year ago
The International & National Socialist hate this guy and are very afraid of him. Keep up all the fine work David. Many people just don't understand until you explain.
eagleseaglessixers 1 year ago
@eagleseaglessixers LOL he's not exactly a heavyweight... he makes Christopher Hitchens look fair and principled by comparison. This guy used to be a Maoist - those guys are a joke even on the left!
Schniddo 1 year ago
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Vlady011 1 year ago
Bravo David, you have used the weak minded and the U.S. political climate to advertise your book. Yes its easy to be an academic in the U.S.!
5sd 1 year ago
a five year old could tell you that this guy is a moron. I wonder how he made it out without himself being indoctrinated? you shame the civilized universe, but this disgrace is yours to experience you dumb animals at Fox and beyond
5sd 1 year ago
This is stupid. If Marxists are in our schools indoctrinating people than they have failed miserably.
Emptyca1m 1 year ago
@Emptyca1m Lol exactly!
EclecticSceptic 1 year ago
Marxists out of U.S. NOW!!!
Halftrac 1 year ago
how can you be a former marxist. i personally believe if you choose to be something once then you should be that till the day you die.
salsa02 1 year ago
@salsa02 What a strange opinion... what I find odd about the idea of being a 'former Marxist' is that unlike being a 'former revolutionary socialist' it implies not a change in allegiances or politics but of taking up an understanding of class, of society, of capitalism and then rejecting it. Many who call themselves Marxist today believe the best we can hope for is Social Democracy (what Britain was under Labour until the end of the 1970s)
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Schniddo Then again, some 'Marxists' have also embraced the free economy as the only way of maintaining social welfare. Go figure.
Schniddo 1 year ago
David Horowitz is "a former Marxist"? Good riddance. We don't need the intellectually lazy likes of Horrowitz on our side.
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Schniddo its a shame you are on the side of tyranny. Liberty will prevail. You are on the losing side. :)
flik221 1 year ago
@flik221 I'm on the side of tyranny? What do you call a system where a handful of people decide where to allocate the wealth they accumulate from the labour of the majority? Of course, when you can't take on an idea intellectually, it is far easier to accuse the other side of 'indoctrination' and Jedi Mind Tricks. Horowitz is an opportunist trying to make a quick buck by yelling 'conspiracy'.
Schniddo 1 year ago
@flik221 Also, Gramsci's theory is an analysis (which Horowitz grossly misrepresents) of how the ideology of the ruling elite is filtered out into society at large. This is about Horowitz stamping on the idea of intellectual debate and questioning of ruling ideology. Who's the tyrant now?
Schniddo 1 year ago
@flik221 Also, what kind of hypocrite is aggressively against affirmative action yet campaigns to have universities enforce a quota of professors and courses which promote a conservative agenda? I'll tell you: David Horowitz!
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Schniddo What kind of hypocrite approves of hiring and admission quotas but laughs at the idea of a fair balance of ideas?
Mikhael0304 1 year ago
@Mikhael0304 I certainly do approve of admissions quotas - universities have a responsibility to allow people from all sorts of social background and quotas are a way of doing that. As far as your snipe about me being against a fair balance of ideas, this amounts to thought policing and bullying. I bet you would be frothing at the mouth if David Horowitz was a leftist. YOU make me laugh.
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Schniddo Like a typical leftist, you fight against SOME injustice.
Mikhael0304 1 year ago
@Mikhael0304 What you propose amounts to totalitarianism, not justice. Who would decide whether a professor's politics are adequate? Would a board say "I understand you have done some valuable work, but unfortunately you are not quite as right wing as what we were looking for. Sorry!" While Horowitz THINKS that this is what goes on informally amongst professors of the left, he is trying to institutionalise as dogmatic law! Your slogans are rather tiresome - learn to debate like a grown up.
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Schniddo Wow, do you have things good and backward! Letting someone have the basic freedom to present his side amounts to totalitarianism, yet bean-counting people by color is fine?
I don't care if the total balance is still tilted to the Left; I would like other persuasions to not feel suffocated into going along like they have with the AGW nonsense, for example. Or conservative students feeling pressured to parrot Leftism to protect a good grade.
Mikhael0304 1 year ago
@Mikhael0304 "Letting someone have the basic freedom to present his side amounts to totalitarianism" No, stop misrepresenting me. What I am against is 'bean counting' professors according to their political leanings "I don't care if the total balance is still tilted to the Left" Well Horowitz does, that's the point of his Education Bill of Rights which he campaigns for There is such thing as the 'battle of ideas' and I'm afraid the one's you would like to come out on top won't necessarily do so.
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Mikhael0304 "Conservative students feeling pressured to parrot Leftism to protect a good grade" They don't have to, a well argued piece gets you good grades regardless. A good friend of mine is a historian and is conservative/libertarian in his thinking. I may disagree with him on many issues, but he is a very intelligent fellow and a hard worker so he gets good grades. Horowitz is a snake oil salesman.
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Schniddo Sorry to keep going on, this interview is just packed with straw man arguments and untruths. What he says about gender studies for example is just absurd - aspects of gender ARE socially constructed e.g. pink used to be associated with boys, blue with girls but EVEN IF HE DISAGREES he refuses to even acknowledge that there is an argument at all! Don't you see how he invalidates all opinions that are not his own? JUST like he did when he was a loony Maoist in the 60s!
Schniddo 1 year ago
@Schniddo one example such as color does not make a cultural argument for socially constructed gender difference. Most non genital gender differences in men and women are NATURAL and not socially dictated.Try reading some neuroscience and biology of gender sometime, clown.
RobAndrew1970 11 months ago
@RobAndrew1970 Sex and gender are two different things. Of course there are differences between the two but these are much exaggerated. The point of this kind of work in gender studies etc. is to show how far general practices are culturally determined as opposed to biologically determined. There is a lot more nuance and disagreement in gender studies than Horowitz let's on, but he has his own agenda. Do you even 'read'? Philistine.
Schniddo 11 months ago
Believe this pish?: who gains?
Hoxification 1 year ago
the most important thing, i ever learned in life is that we die ,second people waste their life thinking about shit that's not important, and never understand what its like to be humane .
MegaMailbox 1 year ago
the most important thing, i ever learned in life is that we die ,second people waste their life thinking about shit that's not important,
MegaMailbox 1 year ago
its no small coincidence that he finds a warm welcome on fox.horowitz is a rancid little worm and the ugliness is inscribed on his face.look where unregulated capitalism has brought everybody today.his and many others scaremongering as to america becoming marxist is so laughable-only the most feeble minded view this as a possibility.do even a superficial search on this clown and find out how corrupt and shoddy he is.
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx Do you deny that capatalism is the reason for this country's economic success since its inception? Do you agree that communism/Marxism has historically failed everywhere it has been implemented?
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 if by capitalism,you mean unregulated capitalism and if by unregulated capitalism and success,you mean exploiting the market,strategic protectionism,cultural imperialism..destabilising foriegn governments and expoiting and controlling foreign resources..amongst many other crimes to maintain its position as empire then yes,i would look to alternatives.its pure scaremongering to state that the u.s is going to turn into the most frigid kind of socialism.
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx Jesus, you need to relax - you Noam Chomsky disciple. No, America isn't the evil empire exploiting the poor, brown people of the third world. Get over yourself. First of all, you are totally reading all kinds of conclusions into my post. This is the clearest indicator of (1) poor critical thinking, (2) an agenda, and (3) a relatively bitter personality. LIGHTEN UP.
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 i beg your pardon.you post a comment about a serious subject and now you want me to lighten up.do you see a capricious spectrum when you wake in the morning ?i could cite case history thats well documented as to americas role in various "enterprises" around the globe-its very well known.go back to zanadu with your pollyannaish insular little attitude.mickey mouse has got your number.
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx You do realize that Horowitz was a 60s Marxist radical himself, and he was friends with Bill Ayers. Do you not think, then, that he has credibility to speak to the motivations of people such as this?
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 you undoubtedley read radical son.it never ceases to amaze me how conservatives have been lead by the nose to actually vote against their interests.horrowitz wants everyone back in the 1950s.its sentimentalism,nostalgia.strong church,repressed family and authoritarianism.you know.keep people dumbed down and easy to manipulate.he certainly isnt a man of the enlightenment...and moreover see if you cant spot the pathology of the man.
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx Nope, never read "Radical Son." Let me give you a sincere piece of advise for your own well-being: you need to calm down. Try to appreciate the good in people instead of looking at only the negative. Again, you have drawn up a very ornate fantasy - none of which I or Horowitz have spoken to ("strong church, repressed family, back to the 50s, etc"). Try to enjoy life. Be more charitable and forgiving, rather than harsh and judgmental. Trust me on this.
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 jesus it gets worse.what sort of banality is this ?next you will be talking about positivity.im pefectly well able to be "nice" to people and see the good in people..why i even.. like people.oh,you know,i should have learnt to either dismiss or ignore people like you.such wishy washy rubbish.
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx Jackass - I can be just as mean and critical as anyone. Rather than tear you apart and your bullshit liberal fantasies, I am trying to help you. GET OVER YOURSELF - SEEK HELP!
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 oh please do tear me and my liberal fantasies apart..oh sorry, surely that should be marxist fantasies..no ? and the presumptiousness of "helping me". lmfao. do you understand anything about horowitz and his brownshirts ? go and read something about dialectics/argument...and learn whats at stake here as oppossed your touchy feely approach.or please begin showing me the light.
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx I know little about Horowitz beyond this video (and others), which is a moot point. He is the messenger. I have spent 7 yrs in SE universities, and I can attest to the bias he speaks of. You have no critical thinking skills. You rant about topics which WERE NOT DISCUSSED ON THIS VIDEO, so how can anyone debate you? I've asked simple questions of you, but you ignore them and move on to your dreamworld. QUESTION 1: Do you dispute that there is a heavy liberal bias in US universities?
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 a moot point ?? comments above and below are on this video..no ?horowitz is the point and i have read widely on the subject-therein the difference..no ? i dont enter into debates with those that clearly know nothing other than a few videos.i was waiting for you to assert something but you even failed to differentiate between capitalism and unregulated capitalism and jumped on the usual hysterical garbage about america becoming marxist.
more..
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx Dude, you are insane. This video is about liberal indoctrination going on in US universities. THAT IS WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT. Do you want to talk about that or not?
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 ok,a little humanity so...dude.its much broader than,he said gently.these are culture wars..well publicised.you and i are mortal enemies lol-but theres a little truth in that.you were educated in a se university so you are having difficulty trancending your cultural inheritance.horowitz is a cautionary figure who wants to patrol the academy like a mccarthy figure full of poisonous paranoia.listen man,i actually have to run now,the baby is crying.will catch up again.peace.
hotstixx 1 year ago
@hotstixx I appreciate the polite gesture. Again, it is impossible to debate when you are changing the subject. I didn't bring up capitalism vs. unregulated capitalism (which, I guess, is anarchy), neither did Horowitz; you did. You also state that I "have jumped on the usual hysterical garbage about america becoming marxist." This is flatly wrong, and I don't know where you got this. You do not listen. You are arguing with a straw man. I don't know who it is, but it's not me or David Horowitz.
hourglass44 1 year ago
@hourglass44 ok,i see you are sincere but please read a little about horowitz.do a search without your ideoligical specs on.the resonances are many and none of them are pretty.do another on american empire.youtube is not suited to rigorous and expansive debate so a short hand is used and i assumed you might be part of a well worn debate.its late in this part of the world so i must bid you good night.
hotstixx 1 year ago
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@hotstixx Do you deny that capatalism is the reason for this country's economic success since its inception? Do you agree that communism/Marxism has historically failed everywhere it has been implemented?
hourglass44 1 year ago
This is consistent with my personal life experiences. Those who project the most arrogance are typically those with the least experience and/or knowledge. Would you be so kind as to bloviate somewhere else?
Omnicronimous 1 year ago
What's most disturbing is the misandrist, bigoted and close-minded views of the poor indoctrinated folk who respond unthinkingly to this type of thing.
pawbard 1 year ago
wow, if this is the kind of intellectual argument we are up against then the revolution is going to be easier than i thought. also, i love the war on women studies that these ideologues are waging as it reveals the unabashedly misogynist character of neoliberalism. the oppression of women is critical for the sustained operation of capitalism and all the right-wingers know this - and they aren't hiding it.
InevitableComedown 1 year ago
This video is pure comedy. Pure comedy.
youngatheartgirl 1 year ago
I can confirm this, as a mature student in a Canadian university. Place is called Bishop's University. It's discusting what they teach here. People ought to be behind bars.
ALFIEAJAPAN 1 year ago
He was a Marxist. He knows. He cleared his mind and became a conservative. To you leftists out there? Case closed!
SuperGuitarman69 1 year ago
Many of the universities have become Brain Wash centers for the extreme Left. Along with show business and the Media these RED bastions have decided to wreck America by way of it's students and artists.
LilChuckyWoodenHead 1 year ago
Gender in its majority is socially created.
violetdrakine 1 year ago
you cannot say wealthier without compare it to what is poor, one cannot exist without other
andy08s 1 year ago
@andy08s and yet you can compare the "poor" of one country (the US) and show how they are infinitely wealthier than the poor in, say, Malaysia, China, India, or Cuba
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Zaxxon2008 poor is poor no matter what economic system you are in. poverty and wealth is not just measured by once person's abilities to be good in economic affairs, but also by once person legal claim toward economic dollar. why did we diminished slavery? does light goes on in your head?
andy08s 1 year ago
@andy08s NO, not all poor are equal
a "poor" man in the US with cable tv, internet, and a car, but earning under $17k/yr live by far a greater life than the subsistence farmer below the poverty level in Cuba
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Zaxxon2008
Really? When is the last time you lived consistently at $17k a year in the U.S.? You speak from experience? I'm guessing not. I did. For a few years. Easier? To live on oatmeal and Govt. Surplus peanut butter for weeks at time? To beg at food pantries of churches and the Salvation Army? To go cold in the winter at times because oil bills were too much to pay for because taxes hiked up the price? Cable? Nope. Internet? Nope. Car? Barely. 1 car for 2 working adults and 3 chilren.
Omnicronimous 1 year ago
Furthermore,
Try govt. sponsored health care for the poor.
I worked as much as I could. My family worked as much as they could. We had decent grades in school, but who could afford college? We had our mouths to feed. No drugs were being used, no alchohol was being consumed. 1 out of the 5 of us smoked. No major health issues were present. It was dealing with working for minimum wage with no post-high school education. We weren't unique.
Tell me again how well poor people live in the U.S.
Omnicronimous 1 year ago
@Omnicronimous your reading comprehension skills are on par with that of a 3yr old
you only further proved my point -
a "poor" man in the US with cable tv, internet, and a car, but earning under $17k/yr live by far a greater life than the subsistence farmer below the poverty level in Cuba
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Zaxxon2008
My reading comprehension is just fine. You make bogus claims you can't back up. Explain what specific things about life for an American making less than $17K a year are better than Cuban farmers? You insist they have cable tv, Internet (it is spelled with a capital "I" btw), and a car... I just told you that my family didn't. There are plenty of people in your <$17k income group that don't have those things. That struggle to feed themselves and their families.
Response?
Omnicronimous 1 year ago
@Omnicronimous internet is a formal name now? news to britannica, i better go tell them... be right back
ok, now that thats done... oh wait, i rarely capitalize anything on youtube (it is spelled Anything, btw) but you better be sure and point out how i dont use apostrophes either... this place is so formal though, i suppose i should start
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Zaxxon2008
1) If you don't know or choose to use proper capitalization, punctuation, or grammar and mock someone else as being "formal" for doing so, it doesn't exactly lend credence to your side of an argument in which you insult the other person's intellect.
2) While I concede that there are advantages to living in the U.S. vs. Cuba regardless of income, the specific income group you speak of includes many families that live in horrible conditions.
Omnicronimous 1 year ago
@Omnicronimous i refuse to begin listing all the ways an American earning $17,000/yr is better off than a Cuban. if you believe otherwise, you are a dolt.
a LUCKY Cuban doesnt even earn HALF that of an American living at the poverty level
but you are an angry, bitter, defeated little man who has given up and just wants to sit there and take your lot in life you feel was given to you, rather than create something better for yourself
good luck with your family of 8 or whatever making < $17k/yr
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Zaxxon2008
3) Furthermore, you assume that I am still very poor while I clearly used past tense language in referring to when I was poor. I understand though. That's more of that "formal" language I use and it confused you. 3yr old reading comprehension? To make it clear - I am no longer poor.
4) You project your views with arrogance, as if poverty is just a condition of choice. Ultimately your submissions here only prove that you're naive, ignorant, and arrogant.
Omnicronimous 1 year ago
@Omnicronimous thats brilliant, kiddo
you cant take it when presented with fatc after fact, so dont attack the message, attack the presentation
you may as well cry - "i dont care about his actions because you said OJ was a 'murderer,' and i prefer the term 'acquitted homicidal man' so i wont listen!" waaaaa - waaaa
you crybaby LOL
and boy-oh-boy are you ever a sad pussy for making that last post crying ABOUT me, but didnt post it TO me
chickenshit
you wanna talk ABOUT me, then talk TO me
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Zaxxon2008
If you had put together anything coherent in that last post, I'd attempt to respond in kind. As for the attempt at insults, you reveal a greater degree of immaturity with every post. I'm done with you. Feel free to continue on your own though if you so wish.
Omnicronimous 1 year ago
@Omnicronimous yeah thought so
called you out for your obvious inability to argue facts and now you want to run away
fine by me
go cry in your $17k/yr hole
better yet, do what you did before and reply to me without actually clicking "REPLY" so i wont get a copy of it in my email...
U R FAIL
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Omnicronimous just a thought tho...
try to keep your supposedly minimum wage job for more than a year (ie- dont get fired for throwing a fit cuz you're mad you get paid min wage)
i bet if you manage to keep that job for awhile, you might -just might- get a raise!
perhaps im a bad example to be criticizing you. i have never had a job paying minimum wage, before or after college. but then again, i never looked for a job flippin burgers. if i had, i wouldnt have expected more
get a real job
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@Zaxxon2008 no, we use same term to define same things. can anybody prove that bill gates is 50,000,000,000 more productive than hobo? it is beyond the reason of economics. it is not productivities or abilities that makes person richer, but LEGAL CLAIM TOWARD DOLLAR that is caught in net of economic means that that person has claim toward. IT IS THE RIGHTS NOT ABILITIES THAT MAKE ONE POOR OR RICH. Slavory was abolish why?
andy08s 1 year ago
@andy08s you end up using symantics to change the playing field in a feeble attempt to justify your ideals, after having your argument challenged and shown foolish
after all, as you initially claimed - "you cannot say wealthier without compare it to what is poor, one cannot exist without other"
and then stated - " poor is poor no matter what economic system you are in"
followed by a feeble attempt to justify by claiming - "poverty and wealth is not just measured by once person's abilities"
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
The same people that protested everything in the 60s and 70s now teach at universities and tell our children they cant question ANYTHING. This is the greatest insult, they tell the students, you have no rights. You are punished for questioning global warming or socialism. Wake you youth, you are dead. These radicals are projecting themselves onto you. They were the braindead ones. They took drugs, beat their women, left children with no support, and spit in cops faces.
jazzfusionary 1 year ago
Fuck David Horowitz
PresidentOfMyself 1 year ago
if you want to call your self wealthy you have to find somebody who is poor
andy08s 1 year ago
Hobo and rich have one life to live, it is valued at one price and both of them will end up six feet under in the perfect eternity box office. But one struggled in life other lived it that is not solely based on one persons abilities and productivities. this is the facts of life
andy08s 1 year ago
@mfarkasmusic bill gates wealth is cosisted with 39% of dealing with government contracts, think about schools, it is not his productivity but LEGAL CLAIM TO DOLLAR, that what is generating wealth for somebody and poverty for others. wealth is not evil but it comes at expense of poverty. i am not socialist nor capitalists nor any much anything. but i see and i talk.
andy08s 1 year ago
@andy08s
Wealth comes at the expense of poverty? NO.
If I get rich because of my company, its grows, people above me also get rich, and we hire new people. NEW JOBS, MORE MONEY, BETTER ECONOMY, RICHER PEOPLE!
You say you are nothing it's because you are an anarchist.
SturmKorps 1 year ago
@SturmKorps there is no economic theory to prove how come bill gates presumed "abilities & productivities" are 50,000,000,000 times better than hobo. it is not once only efforts that make once a person in economy it is also the claim of dollar from economyc abilities by law or legalized theft. no body said anarchy is bad, no one try it so what it is also way of life
andy08s 1 year ago
@SturmKorps Is this why europe is slashing wages?
AndrewMann552 1 year ago
Truth has no race or gender.
AcePilot2009 1 year ago
If you can prove to me that Bill Gates is 50,000,000,000 times is more able than last hobo on the street than you can reclaim original Capitalistic Idea.
andy08s 1 year ago
How come in USA there are SUPER RICH, people who own tons of millions of money, and yet there are millions of people who work for rat's pay, such as minimum wage. I talk to one who made like a million dollars one year it sounds big number. But it is simple not truth that those SUPER RICH, they have better abilities than others who got rat's pay.
andy08s 1 year ago
Your mind is made up. When we lose our freedoms, get taxed into equality, lose many Constitutional protections by Obama'send-around maneuverings like the 2nd Amendment, mass unionization and cronyism, deconstruct our military, allow for no border control, ect. you might have your eyes opened. These are all Alinsky-inspired features Obama and the Left are implementing.
trodaball 1 year ago
@trodaball
Big corporations will typically support Republican Party and will occasionally support Democratic Party when Republicans lose mass of support.(Like they did with Bush) And it is these corporations that controls mainstream media. This is not Leftist phenomena. No mainstream medias in U.S. will have any anti-imperialist view. Even with our current healthcare reform, opinions of those who supports single-payer healthcare wasn't even covered.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
Like I said, colleges and universities are only place in U.S. where there are relative "balance" between Right and Left. "Entire Political Science Depts have been taken over by left-leaning elitists"? We have some Leftists and many liberals. If we consider your misguided understanding of political spectrum, Democrats are "Leftists", and thus have "taken over" the "[e]ntire Political Science Depts". But reality is that really isn't true at all.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
But if we look at Economics in major colleges/universities, they rarely teach Marxist economics but rather heavily emphasize on Adam Smith to Milton Friedman. To assume that students have no freedom of opinion due to having their grades at stake is nonsense. I used to be Right-winger during my college years and I voiced my opinions against race mixing and abortion as well as defended whites' right to be proud of their race and so on. I was criticized but was never silenced.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
Our freedom have already been reduced with racist profiling against minorities as well as economic injustice with tax cuts for rich. Obama even disregarded EFCA which suppose to give workers right to form their own union if majority agrees. Leftists are highly critical of Obama's bailout, universal healthcare, war in Afghanistan, occupation of Iraq, his supports for Israel as well as his passivity for LGBT's right and his silence against racism. But then again, FOX is your world.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
You are so far removed from the reality of why our republic was founded and what true economic freedom is you're like talking to a wall. Entire Political Science Depts have been taken over by left-leaning elitists. All of the major media outlets are owned by a consolidated group of globalist leftist bankers who all belong to the same think-tanks and openly state their desire for global gov't. With themselves in the inner cirlce of power, of course.
trodaball 1 year ago
@trodaball
"[W]hy our republic was founded"? It is undeniable and is something to be celebrated that common people were capable to unite and liberate themselves from British rules. American Revolution is historical heritage of Left. It's not a historical heritage of Right. "[E]conomic freedom"? This is loaded term. Thomas Jefferson believed in smaller central government so farmers and other common people can make political participation rather than industrialists and bankers.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
He even stated that more dominant corporations becomes, it will eliminate democracy as we know it. One of major Right-wing rhetoric(and your misguided notion) of "economic freedom" is it only provide greater freedom for corporate domination while it significantly reduce freedom of mass. And it is this corporate domination that both far-Right(Republicans) and center-Right(Democrats) supports and they also get supported by them.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
Leftists supports single-payer healthcare over Obama's "universal healthcare". This is clear indication of Right-wing leaning nature of our mainstream media. In France, they invite everyone from Christians to socialists while we lack such diversity. In Norway, communist journalists have their own columns in mainstream newspaper while we don't have any of that. We only have corporate medias that are being covered by conservatives and liberals.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
Most of Political Science Depts have diverse references from Burke, Rouseau, Mills and Marx and more. But if we actually look at the studies of Marxism, they reduce it into academic discipline rather than actual revolutionary politic. This is called "academic Marxism" by revolutionary Marxists and they highly critical of it. Horowitz have mentioned Gramsci and Gramsci is perfect example where they reduced him into figure for cultural studies and semiotics.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
My grades were never at stake due to my opinions. Horowitz's argument is nonsense and really have no prove since he himself have admitted that he never saw any lectures of these radical professors. My "mind is made up"? After several years of being mindless nationalist Right-wing conservative, yes, my mind is made up against such trash. Lose our freedom? We are already losing our freedom from both Republicans and Democrats when LGBT people have no rights.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
Horowitz is a wac job - this guy is too much fun to listen to - he's no smarter than Hannity - it's claimed Hannity has a journalism degree but that's just too hard to believe. These two are great entertainment nevertheless.
billoakesattablthree 1 year ago
@billoakesattablthree Haha. You need to look into Horowitz's history. He'll forget more about the world than you'll ever know. Typical lefty, a blind follower who trusts his leaders all the way to ruins, and mocks those who can help them understand the truth. You'd rather drown in your naivelty rather than grab a life raft.
trodaball 1 year ago
"Indoctrination"? So David Horowitz actually think students can be "indoctrinated" by taking these courses? This really reflects his conservatism. They view that mass are dupes who are easily indoctrinated. Their mindless mechanism is students are all going to become Marxists if they are educated under Marxist professor and are going to become conservatives if they were taught under conservative professor. This is an insult against students who believe they can become free thinkers.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@unorthodoxtrotsky With 2-4 years of bias teaching on young minds with their grades at stake who never previously never learned the alternative political philosophies do become heavily influenced by Marxism. Crafty professors dress up communist ideology with constant mocking of the free-enterprise system all the time.
trodaball 1 year ago
@trodaball
There are young students who go to private Catholic schools. Do you think they all become "indoctrinated" into Catholicism? "2-4 years of bias teaching"? Do you actually think that such "bias teaching" reflects totality of "2-4 years"? Most of students take these courses as general requirements and students have freedom to select courses (among say, "Political Science" or "Anthropology" and so on). Grades aren't at stake based upon how one agree with a professor.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
Grades are determined by class participation and one's own analytical skills. Your generalization normally happens in private Catholic schools and most of students don't get "indoctrinated" under such institutions. Funny thing is Horowitz himself have admitted that he have never seen how these class works under such radical professors. He admitted that he was making conclusion based upon professors' references for teaching. And none of these courses are mandatory either.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
"Alternative political philosophies"? We live and preserve our subsistence in capitalist society. Even those who are struggling against it have to somehow compromise with it. What is "alternative political philosophies" under such society? Free market? No, it's Marxism and other radical politics. We can study Milton Friedman and have better understanding of our economic system but that's not an alternative. Dressing up of communism have already happened under McCarthyism.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@trodaball
If we need "alternative", we need to "undress" such McCarthyist indoctrination by studying it with actual references. And even that won't be "balance" in favor of radical politics. "So many leftists"? In U.S.? U.S. is most Right-wing leaning nation compare to third world countries or Europe. Our mainstream medias are highly Right-wing leaning. CNN's Anderson Cooper always say that they try to have "balance" between Right and Left but he never invited Leftist guesses.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
Antonio Gramsci concluded that proletariat can't no longer make revolution? Where does this "ex-Marxist" come up with this ridiculous conclusion? Gramsci never abandoned the idea of proletarian revolution. Gradual changes of capitalist society through various reform isn't anything new in Marxist circle. Both Lenin and Luxemburg recognized this. What Gramsci believed was "bourgeois hegemony" should be replaced to "proletarian hegemony" after socialist revolution.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
@unorthodoxtrotsky If it wasn't successful why are their so many leftists ? Why do advertisers spend billions of dollars each year if people cannot be influenced to buy products which are made to look fantastic. You are naive and another syptom of the problem. A clone of pseudo intellectual teaching. your comments prove this.
trodaball 1 year ago
@trodaball
The fact that most of Americans think that Democratic Party is Leftist party indicates how Right-leaning we are. And colleges and universities are only places where we have relative balance and we have someone like Horowitz complaining about it. And influence of advertisement which is deeply rooted in our society from our upbringing as kids is different from "2-4 years of bias teachings" as you have put it. One needs conscious endeavor to be radicalized than taking some courses.
unorthodoxtrotsky 1 year ago
Horowitz is nothing more than a communist turned fasicst.
The guy is unprincipled scumbag.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
After what Horowitz did to the memory of Howard Zinn I hope to live long enough to urinate on Horowitz' grave. He is so emblematic of everything wrong with the neo-con right.
kassandrasduplex 2 years ago
Yes, the left hates it when one of their own finally sees the light don't they?
tbc0460 1 year ago
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> Yes, the left hates it when one of their own finally
> sees the light don't they?
The antithesis of communism isn't fascism.
You people don't even understand the basics of democracy anymore, which is why we don't live in a democracy anymore.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
Yes, because he's a Jew sticking up for fellow Jews.
reziztanze 2 years ago
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@reziztanze "Yes, because he's a Jew sticking up for fellow Jews."
Not quite, his treatment of Jewish Howard Zinn was among the most shameful acts any neo-con nut case has ever done. Horowitz isn't sticking up for Jews, he's a rabid venal warmongering fanatic sticking up for violence and un-American political behavior.
kassandrasduplex 2 years ago
David Horowitz used to be a pal to nitwits like william Ayers now the scumbag is pals with Sean Hannity.Horowitz is still a scumbag but has just switched nitwits.He went from radical Marxist to conservative neocons.
xxdonaldqxx 2 years ago
Merriam Webster's collegiate dictionary defines liberalism as, "A political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties." Nice try, next time actually look a word up before you give it a false definition.
thirteendays13 2 years ago
I took the time since you were too lazy to copy and paste:
"c : a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties; specifically : such a philosophy that considers government as a crucial instrument for amelioration of social inequities (as those involving race, gender, or class)" (from the Merriam Webster on-line dictionary)
You made my point for me.
TrooperRaven 2 years ago
Did anyone put out a call for an opinion from the UAE? I didn't think so.
TrooperRaven 2 years ago
Aww.
By your standards, my life probably hasn't amounted to much. But then the standards carried by you, and others like you, are without value.
TrooperRaven 2 years ago
A "Tribute To Michael Jackson"!? Bwahahaha! What a wuss you must be.
BAPYOU made reference to that and when I saw it on your homepage I burst out laughing. You refer to teaching at the community college level as "babysitting"? Michael Jackson enjoyed taking care of children, too.
TrooperRaven 2 years ago
marxisim is coming. beware the useful idiots. you will die first
trigger0704 2 years ago 2