this might explain bernie sanders popularity

[plant.one]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... ege-texts/

Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto is ranked among the top three most frequently assigned texts at universities and colleges, and Marx is the most assigned economist in college courses.

The data comes from the Open Syllabus Project (OSP), which writes about its system of monitoring books and other materials assigned to college students:

At present, we have around 1.1 million syllabi, drawing predominantly from the past decade of teaching in the US. We think the total number of US, UK, Canadian, and Australian syllabi for the past 15 years is in the range of 80-100 million.

The beta version of OSP’s Syllabus Explorer is publicly available, and the project acknowledges it’s a work in progress, and welcomes the donations of syllabi to its cause from universities and departmental faculty.

Writing at MarketWatch, managing editor Tom Bemis also reviewed the OSP Explorer and begins his column about it with the following trigger warning: “The following blog post includes the use of ironic tone which may be confusing or upsetting to people reading outside their safe zones.”

Bemis, who also observes that the Bible isn’t even on the list of texts, continues:

In case you had any doubts that America’s college campuses are dominated by Godless communists, fresh statistical evidence is at hand.

More than 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of market economy practices in China, “The Communist Manifesto” still ranks among the top three most frequently assigned texts at American universities.

The OSP Explorer ranks each text according to a “count,” which is the number of times the text appears in course syllabi, and a teaching score – “a numerical indicator of the frequency with which a particular course is taught,” according to the site.

Marx’s The Communist Manifesto is ranked third on the overall list of assigned texts, with a count of 3,189 and a teaching score of 99.7. William Strunk’s The Elements of Style is ranked first with a count of 3,934 and a teaching score of 100.0, while Plato’s Republic comes in second with a count of 3,573 and a teaching score of 99.9.

When the OSP explorer is filtered by country, Marx’s work has an overall ranking of fourth in the United States, with a count of 2,244, 37th in the United Kingdom, with a count of 197, and sixth in Canada, with a count of 76. In Australia and New Zealand, the book receives a count of only 2 and is in the bottom ranks.

Ironically, when you filter the OSP explorer by field, Marx’s classic is not among the top texts in the field of Economics – where it ranks as 71st among the texts assigned. Among History texts, however, The Communist Manifesto ranks fourth, in the field of Sociology texts, it comes in third, and in Politics, it ranks eighth.

Regarding the text’s placement in the field of Economics, Bemis adds:

[A] search for “economics” shows Paul Krugman at the top of the list with his iconic “Economics,” which gets a count of 1,081 and score of 89.4. However, Gregory Mankiw’s “Macroeconomics,” doesn’t appear at all under the same search, even though it gets a count of 989 and a teaching score of 87.5.

Karl Marx’s classic receives a count of 3,189 and a score of 99.7. It doesn’t actually show up under economics texts either, as it is generally taught along with philosophy texts such as “The Social Contract,” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; “Leviathan,” by Thomas Hobbes; and “On Liberty,” by John Stuart Mill…

Among other standouts, “Mein Kampf,” by Adolph Hitler, received a count of 697 and a score of 75.7. “What Is To Be Done,” by Vladimir Lenin received a count of 361 and a teaching score of 45.9.

When the OSP explorer is filtered by state, The Communist Manifesto ranks first among texts assigned in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Indiana, New Hampshire, and Washington State; second in New York, Iowa, and Virginia; third in Massachusetts and Minnesota; fourth in California and Connecticut; seventh in Illinois; eighth in Georgia; 22nd in Tennessee; and 72nd in Texas.

The OSP explorer can also be filtered by institutions. For example, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Marx’s classic is ranked second among texts assigned, and fourth at University of California – Berkeley.

[tXr]

The only good commie is the commie who just received a bullet to the brain pan.

[plant.one]

The only good commie is the commie who just received a bullet to the brain pan.

while i cant help but agree that going around to all the university's and 86'ing the problem at its core would be the easy solution, last i checked murder was still illegal in the US. so we can cross that off the list before the list even gets started




my intent in sharing this was to show where the likely problem lies - bring the monster into broad daylight if you will - so that a reasonable answer might be suggested.

how do we go about changing whats being taught at our institutions of higher learning? i mean if i had to guess... if its being pushed this heavily as a must read i strongly doubt its being used as an example of what not to do. how do we look at working forward to whats being shoveled into the skulls full of mush that's adsorbing this very anti-american literature (i'm using the term in its loosest interpretation).

[smustian]

Just proof that the liberal progressive agenda is working as they said would happen 40 years ago. They stated they knew that a full radical change was not possible but that each generation could be indoctrinated more than the previous until a majority of people thought the same way as they did.

[rpk47]

What's interesting is that they don't say what subject Karl Marx is being assigned.(edit scratch that they did mention that it is assigned as mostly history, soooo I guess I'm left wondering whats the big deal with this????) The only time Marx was mentioned in my courses was, primarily in history when studying post WWII to understand the context of what lead into the cold war, and in passing in my economics classes with; "Karl Marx had this idea...yada yada basic communisim structure....and if failed horribly."

You can't not teach communisum and Marx's ideas or you will be missing out on the reason for pretty much all of recent history and context for cold war, Korea, Vietnam, all these other important historical events. Assigning Marx Communist Manifesto is not taught as a "successful" or "suggested" theory by any stretch, just as assigning Mein Kamph isn't teaching being a genocidal racist maniac is anything but abhorrent.

[tXr]

What's interesting is that they don't say what subject Karl Marx is being assigned.(edit scratch that they did mention that it is assigned as mostly history, soooo I guess I'm left wondering whats the big deal with this????) The only time Marx was mentioned in my courses was, primarily in history when studying post WWII to understand the context of what lead into the cold war, and in passing in my economics classes with; "Karl Marx had this idea...yada yada basic communisim structure....and if failed horribly."

You can't not teach communisum and Marx's ideas or you will be missing out on the reason for pretty much all of recent history and context for cold war, Korea, Vietnam, all these other important historical events. Assigning Marx Communist Manifesto is not taught as a "successful" or "suggested" theory by any stretch, just as assigning Mein Kamph isn't teaching being a genocidal racist maniac is anything but abhorrent.

I have a nephew and that is exactly what is being taught, that Karl Marx and socialism is the key to the worlds problems, that capitalism and consumerism is bad and is used in many classrooms of different subjects not just history. This is being taught in Economics, History, humanities and any and all liberal bogus classes, and if you don't regurgitate that party mantra you get a bad grade. Then when you look at the massive reduction in STEM graduates and corresponding increase in liberal arts, what do you expect

[tXr]

The only good commie is the commie who just received a bullet to the brain pan.

while i cant help but agree that going around to all the university's and 86'ing the problem at its core would be the easy solution, last i checked murder was still illegal in the US. so we can cross that off the list before the list even gets started

I grew up in an age where a childs first sentence they utter is "better dead than red", and "kill all commies", I was taught from the very first day that communists are your MORTAL ENEMY !!!!!!! I volunteered for the military to fight and kill commies!

And I have not seen any evidence that would contradict that early learning, and nothing will ever change that. It would take every ounce of restraint not to kill a commie if they walked up to me and announced their perversion.

[rebel]

My son is fresh out of college and working now. It's funny how attitudes change when you look at your paycheck and see how much is coming out of it to take care of the masses. Bernie wants more as a self professed communist/ socialist - I don't really differentiate between the two. He had 4 years of ultra lib-tard crap shoved down his throat and is just now starting to see where his money is going, I pray it affects him at the voting booth.

[idaho.jon]

The real root reason that Sanders is popular, is that freedom takes work, and socialism sounds like the easy way out. Which statement sounds more attractive to most people: "I'll steal money from your neighbor and give it to you" or "I will not stand in the way of you working hard and earning your own money"?

Socialism promotes "equality", where everyone is equally poor, except the administrators of course. Liberty promotes and leads to true equality, where everyone has the same worth, even if it's not the same "net worth".

[BlackLight]

http://www.truthfromgod.com/articles/je ... unism.html

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/js ... nders.html