If you want an opinion of socialism from someone that knows how to look at the big picture because of his extensive knowledge is many fields, lookup Noam Chomsky. An intellectual. YouTube video
Re: Interesting view of Socialism/Marxism from a Professor
Originally posted by MS Warehouse👆
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27861/
In Eastern Europe socialism was overwthrown after decades of its authoritarian rule by the people's movements Solidarity... gee I wonder why.
In the same spirit:
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26717/
Today Professor Florin Curta is a professor in medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida...
Discovering academic and personal freedom unlike anything he could have in post-Communist Romania, Curta permanently relocated to America....
Curta is one of the world’s most distinguished scholars in medieval history and archaeology – and is co-founder of the University of Florida’s medieval and early modern studies center, where he directs its certificate program.
He recently shared his experience growing up under a communist regime and discussed the rise of socialism in America during a phone interview with The College Fix:...
[i]Socialism appears to be a popularly embraced ideology in American academia. Why do you think this is? What is so tempting about this mindset?
Curta: I think that there’s an idealism that most people in academia, specifically in the humanities, share. We live in an era of ideological morass, especially with the collapse of communism that has left no room for those idealists in the academic world. No matter how you can prove that system doesn’t work, with an inclination to go that way perhaps because most people associate socialism with social justice, while the former is an ideology with concrete ideas and concrete historical experiences, while social justice is a very vague abstract notion.
You have to understand, the difference between ideas and facts is what is of major concern here. As my father used to say, it is so much easier to be a Marxist when you sip your coffee in Rive Gauche, left-bank Paris, than when living in an apartment under Ceaușescu, especially in the 1980s.
Aside from the reality that it's a well known fact in my Jewish world?
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/noam-chomsky-pushed-stephen-hawking-to-boycott-israeli-conference/2013/05/11/
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/articles/Is%20Noam%20Chomsky%20an%20Anti.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-chomsky-guardian-personality
I mean really, I can find you 10+ links to which you'll brush off because your sanity is definitely in question.
Originally posted by MS Warehouse
Aside from the reality that it's a well known fact in my Jewish world?http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/noam-chomsky-pushed-stephen-hawking-to-boycott-israeli-conference/2013/05/11/
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/articles/Is%20Noam%20Chomsky%20an%20Anti.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-chomsky-guardian-personalityI mean really, I can find you 10+ links to which you'll brush off because your sanity is definitely in question.
The Jewishpress, well how impartial, and some random website. You sure do know how to look for credible sources. Anyway, the only credible source you brought up is "The Guardian" and it's clear you haven't read what it says.
This is pretty much Israel smearing Chomsky because he disagrees with the terrorist acts (War Crimes) of Israel against Palestine.
" One very common tactic for enforcing political orthodoxies is to malign the character, "style" and even mental health of those who challenge them."
He goes on.
"Nobody has been subjected to these vapid discrediting techniques more than Noam Chomsky."
" And that's the point: as this 9-minute Guardian video excerpt about Iran and the Middle East from Chomsky's London speech demonstrates, he [Chomsky] rationally but aggressively debunks destructive mainstream falsehoods that huge numbers of people are taught to tacitly embrace. But all of that can be, and is, ignored in favor of hating his "style", ridiculing his personality, and smearing him with horrible slurs ("self-hating Jew"😉."
Sure you can keep putting my sanity into question, as I continue to bring facts and intelligence to the conversation.