Course Catalog at UC-Berkeley Found to be Filled With Marxist Offerings
“Marxism, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and more”
It would be more shocking if the catalog were not filled with communist offerings.
Campus Reform reports:
UC Berkeley course catalog found to be abundant with Marxist offerings
The University of California, Berkeley offers a number of progressive-themed courses promoting philosophies such as Marxism, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and more.
Campus Reform previously reported on the school’s “Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group,” which studies the “ongoing relevance of Marxism to the current historical moment, as an explicitly global project.”
A closer look at UC Berkeley’s course catalog, however, reveals a pervasive Marxist influence not just in its working group, but throughout many of its course offerings as well.
The school’s “Program in Critical Studies,” which was “launched with the intention of providing graduate students the opportunity to train in true interdisciplinarity, bringing together some of the most rigorous and innovative forms of critique from across the humanities and social sciences,” hosts a variety of seminars promoting left-leaning political and economic philosophies.
Five of the seminars explicitly state their inclusion of Marxist content in their course descriptions. Critical Theory 240, for instance, includes topics such as “critical theory and Marxism,” “critical race theory,” and “postcontinental political theory.”
Other seminars, such as Critical Theory 205, study the Frankfurt School, which is a school of thought now known as Critical Theory that originated from the Goethe University’s Institute for Social Research in the 1920s. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains the subject as “a specific interpretation of Marxist philosophy with regards to some of its central economic and political notions like commodification, reification, fetishization and critique of mass culture.”
“What insights might the Frankfurt School offer into our own critical times?” the course description asks. “This seminar revisits foundational texts of the Frankfurt School in conjunction with recent work that has engaged with critical theory from the perspectives of climate crisis, digital technologies, feminist and queer politics, postcolonialism, the prison-industrial complex, and right-wing extremism.”
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The question is, are there enough real courses in real things that the school is still useful, or should it just be shut down?
It’s Berserkely. Shut it down. Fire the staff. Raze the buildings. Plow the land. Plant corn.
Water = wet
“Critical theory” is itself a Marxist invention, from the Frankfurt School. They traced it back to Marx’s call for a “critical examination” of everything, one that deconstructs all culture and ideas, effectively destroying them, so that an entirely new system can be constructed. From this we get sub “disciplines” like critical race theory and critical queer theory.
Critical theory and other manifestations of cultural Marxism are what need destroying.
Stupidity at its finest
“In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. We may specify still further: Marxist socialism also belongs to that subgroup which promises paradise on this side of the grave. The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed” (Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 1950, p. 5).
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