Florida Senator, Marco Rubio’s plain talk evaluation of Marxism’s craftiness and the impact it is having on our young people is a wakeup call for America.
Speaking at the annual CPAC convention in Orlando this past February, Rubio described Marxism from a new perspective. “Marxism isn’t merely an economic theory. It is a lot more than an economic theory. It is a few people telling everyone what to do, what to think and if you don’t go along, you are punished. There are a lot of people who are Marxists who don’t even know that they are influenced by Marxism. In their minds there are a handful of people who know what is good and is right. These people believe that what we need is a system that allows them to infuse their beliefs on everyone else; because in their thinking, they know what is best for everyone else.”
Laura Roselle, Sharon Spray and Joel Sheldon further defined Marxist attributes as “cultural commodification are a means of social control and distraction.” They identified key concepts including “ideology, core/periphery and exploitation,” as resulting attributes of Marxism.
Linking Marxism to Communism
Former Idaho Congressman, Curtis Bowers cited W.Cleon Skousan’s, “The Naked Communist” as a link between Marxism and modern-day Communism.
While communism itself is an economic model, it has been effectively implemented utilizing Marxist methodology. In his chilling documentary, “Agenda”, Bowers painstakingly introduced the channel by which the ideology was introduced, first in Western Europe, later in America.
“It begins with our children.” Bowers lamented. Vladimir Lenin said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
A Marxist Spawning Ground?
The Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce is within the University of Kentucky. UK is a federal land grant institution. In 2021, I enrolled as a Donavon Scholar, a designation for 65 and older students, taking nine hours of graduate courses. After a class or two, I was warned by my younger counterparts, “Be careful with the “Big C.”
They were referencing a former United States Diplomat who held a senior lecturer position on the faculty. In the words of several students, “Don’t ask questions that are too specific or too pointed. If he determines that you are not on board with his narrative, he will fail you.”
“The narrative?” I asked, naively.
“That Trump was the worst president in history and the 2020 election was clean.” The students admitted.
I had heard those exact words from a renowned Patterson Economics Professor the previous month. Maybe it was due to Trump’s taking exception to the “Deep State,” aka “The Swamp” and its Marxist orientation.
The Patterson School is one of eight schools in America who train future State Department, Defense Department and Homeland Security careerists. In most cases, their faculty members are unbiased professionals. Problem is, it only takes one bad grade from a partisan instructor, and you are finished.
Liberalism Alive, Well and Thriving at the University of Colorado
Closer to home, many recall George Washington University’s Andrew Desiderio’s article about the 2014 University of Colorado’s Social Bias Survey, which highlighted faculty members’ political preferences. Two-thirds professed to be liberals while only 13% admitted being conservatives.
The social bias survey found most students and faculty felt respected in general. Yet when it came to political affiliation, they often felt attacked. The same survey also found only 6% of CU Boulder professors identified as Republicans, while 41% identified as Democrats.
Susan Sharkey, a Republican who sat on the board of Regents for the University of Colorado system, found the disparity disquieting. In an interview with “The College Fix” she opined, “Universities are better places if they promote a diversity of thoughts across political and philosophical spectrums, and if they engage in spirited discussion that reflects varied viewpoints.”
Sharkey also said that significant numbers of University of Colorado students said they had experienced prejudice or discrimination “sometimes” or “frequently.” Additionally, particularly on the Boulder campus, many students said they were not respected when it came to their political affiliations and political philosophies.
Even more disconcerting, according to Sharkey, was that an average of “61 percent of students” across all the University of Colorado campus said they would not know how to report a complaint of discrimination. “It is my hope with the policy we have in place, any student who experiences discrimination will report to the non-discrimination and harassment office at the university,” Sharkey added.
It Begins with Our Children
While colleges and universities are the last chapter, the indoctrination begins much earlier. As Skousan explained, Marxism has subtly invaded our public school system. Critical Race Theory, a cornerstone of Marxist ideology, is the standard of the Biden Administration. When parents objected, Attorney General Merritt Garland labeled them “terrorists.”
Through this chaos, there are some positive signs, such as the state of Virginia rebuffing Terry McAuliffe’s statement, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
McAuliffe’s startling gubernatorial loss to Glenn Youngkin sent shockwaves through the Democrat party and highlighted the changes the schools in the country are going through. Parents are pushing back and engaging with their local school boards.
Merit Academy Establishes a New Standard
Most encouraging is the “no politics” public school created by rural Colorado parents. Merit Academy of Woodland Park opened in August 2021. The K-8 went from an idea to reality in just one year and will soon extend through 12th grade.
As stated in Joy Pullman’s article, “How Rural Colorado Parents Created a ‘No Politics’ Public School in Just One Year”, the Merit Academy is a “classical school, offering a low-screen, high relationship environment with focus on creative and critical thinking through careful attention to classic works and traditional approaches to math and science. These are things parents wanted but were not available through the Woodland Park School District.”
Like many school districts in the nation, Woodland Park has become computer centered over the last several years. This was what spurred the inception of the Merit Academy. The traditional formula had amounted to, “synchronize, standardize, advance the agenda, convert the recipients. Before anyone figured it out, the objective would be completed.” This is the sequence as outlined by Skousan.
A Work in Progress
Unfortunately for the Marxists, the Merit Academy model is being duplicated nationwide. The entire public school system from kindergarten to graduate schools remains a work in progress.
“There are kids in America who have had their admission to colleges revoked because of what they said or when they said or did it, when they were 14 years old! There are certain things you can’t say on a college campus. They are one step away from destroying your life,” Rubio added.
The great awakening can’t come soon enough.
