McPherson: Cancel Marxism. Defund the Universities

No institution in the United States, or the Western world in general, is more enamored with Marxism than so-called “higher education.”

Marxism is grounded in class hatred, the notion that we are each born into a particular economic group that is either oppressor (the capitalists) or oppressed (the proletariat), it being the duty of every member of the latter group to smash the alleged source of all human misery – capitalism – and replace it with socialism, euphemistically described as the unification of all working people through the “abolition of property” and the public ownership of the “means of production.”

In reality, however, socialism creates an authoritarian society run by an elite who rule through terror. The “freedom” of the proletariat is actually collective misery and abject fear. Despite a century and a half of evidence, which demonstrates to any honest person that liberal societies with free markets have done more than any other system to provide even the most disadvantaged members of society a higher standard of living than the world has ever known, the love affair with Marxism persists – especially on college and university campuses.

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