Carl J. Kieck (@CarlKieck)

" #KarlMarx holds the title of the most frequently assigned #author from the #philosophical canon in #American university #classrooms." - Why is that so? Does it have to be like that? What motive or plan, seemingly sworn to by #academics, is behind this nonsensical status quo? "Far from bearing the stigma one might reasonably expect to accompany a movement that killed 100 million people in the 20th century, #SOCIALIST #IDEOLOGY RETAINS A POSITION OF HIGH ESTEEM IN ELITE #ACADEMIC, #JOURNALISTIC, AND #INTELLECTUAL CIRCLES." - Why are the historical #facts being ignored? Who or what is responsible for this situation? How is it that there appears to be an unspoken 'working agreement' between pro- #Marxist networks in the #MSM, #education, activist organisations, intellectual cliques, literary movements, etc.? *Latest #book by #RandPaul - #TheCaseAgainstSocialism - summons an impressive collection of contrary data & personal testimonies from victims, thereby bringing urgently needed sensibility to bear on popular themes & arguments propounded by writers, #radical #politicians & activist #academics in favour of various incarnations & flavours of sociaIism: Examples of themes, preoccupations & 'justificatory' arguments or 'models' frequently encountered in recent #socialist proponents' ramshackle discourse(s), reviewed by Rand Paul in his work: - The promotion of inequality discourses & scenarios based on incongruent facts & comparisons; - Misuse of #Scandinavian #SocioEconomic data & highly selective examples in order to support, for example, North American forms of #DemocraticSocialism; - Attempts to disqualify atrocities & outrages committed by Marxist / Communist / Socialist experiments & regimes throughout modern #history as not having been the same or 'real' socialism, etc. - An attempt by writers, academics & intellectuals to wage a "misdirection campaign" as "an umbrella justification for far-left policies". #Quote: "Leftists in #America heralded #Chavez's election. #BernieSanders, #NoamChomsky, and others pointed with glee to data showing a decline in poverty. When socialism finally strangled the economy and Chavez resorted to violent means to quell protests, many on the Left went radio silent on #Venezuela ... ... [Following the National Survey of Living Conditions conducted by three #Venezuelan #universities] ... ... About one third of Venezuelans were found to only have enough food for two meals or less each day. Whereas #SeanPenn and others had lauded Chavez for eliminating 80 percent of poverty, this survey found that 87 percent of Venezuelan households had descended into poverty". *Recommended* commentary: Via #NationalReview & interview with Rand Paul conducted by #JohnStossel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bdu9Apy1uo https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/31/rand-pauls-case-against-socialism/ #News #NEWS #Religion #Science #Philosophy #Politics #Literature #Culture #Society #Economics #History #School #College #University #SpeakFreely #FreeSpeech #GabFam https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/31/rand-pauls-case-against-socialism/