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Go live in Russia,China, Venezuela,Iran etc if you want Marxism. I came from a Communist Marxist country and it ain't pretty. You have no voice, you own nothing, you have no freedoms. Don't allow yourself to ve part of the "herd"... think for yourself. Teaching DEI in our schools is dangerous and destructive. Yes I'm a former elementary school teacher and what they're teaching our children today is evil. Beware parents. These children are the future of the world as we know it. Dzvinka Dzvinka Dzvinka

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I am reading Lindsay’s critique now of pro-trans-pedagogy, and it’s pretty good. But the man is a raving McCarthyite. And judging from the title, this is not a book I would recommend to anyone possessing more than half a brain cell. Lindsay is tilting at windmills, all the while frothing at the mouth.

I am an anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-Great Reset Marxist adjunct sociology professor, formerly working at CUNY. Over the past year, I have been dismissed from my teaching positions at two CUNY campus sociology departments, one after another, because of my insistence upon my right—and duty—to present different views, including my own radical Marxist view, on controversial issues, such as the slaughter in Palestine, the corruption of Dr. Anthony “da Science” Fauci, and the CIA-organized murder of Leftist pop stars like John Lennon. My “offense”, was not that I don’t subscribe to Marxism. I do. It is because the full time faculty who control these departments and colleges, are “woke” Centrist liberals. Despite the AAUP statement in the 1940s about the right to academic freedom, these conformiats do not like controversy, “conspiracy theories”, imitates the speech of film actors whose characters do not come from my personal ethnic or racial group (“cultural expropriation!”, anybody who criticizes Nikole Hannah Jones, Critical Race Theory, #Me2, Pope Fauci, or even so much as quotes from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s expose of the latter.

Woke is the real enemy. Woke is the foundation of the hegemony of the ruling class Great Reset. Many so-called Marxists understand this. But due to their religio-scientism, they accept all the nonsense about the pandemic, the mandates, etc. etc. That’s unfortunate. But branding the woke academic establishment “Marxist” is positively Orwellian, as well as intellectually and politically lazy and irresponsible.

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Well, we can do both: teach the basics (reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic) AND critically evaluate the structures, players, and mechanisms that currently largely hold sway over this planet and her peoples. A big problem for me in this interview is that the word “education” is often used where the word “schooling” would be much more appropriate. Schooling, for the most part, does involve training and forming and molding a person into behaving, memorizing or reacting a certain way, and, to some degree, it is necessary. For most of us, however, once we have mastered the “3 Rs”, the bulk of our education comes from “doing”, as in real life experience. Blurring the distinction between the two processes is rarely helpful, and is just confusing. We do need to challenge, far, far far more than is done now, the ruling classes and hold them accountable for their egregious behavior. That’s not Marxist, that is just common sense. And we also need to be able to coherently and rationally do so, which points back to the importance of a good fundamental background in the basics, as well as critical thinking.

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Following some great ideas from Bezmenov’s Substack, combined with the user-guide movie for future mind controllers, I would say that we only need one basic tool, or tactics. When applied, and applied consistently and with strong perseverance, it will be immensely successful, without the target population being even aware of how their minds have been redesigned.

This tactics is labeling. Putting a name on anything, the most vague you can think of, but a name short enough and “catchy” to be converted into an anchor to trigger the desired reaction of the controlled mind.

The media are now abundant with such trigger labels: Democrats, Republicans, anti-vaxxer, lives matter, freedom fighter, pronouns, queer, great reset, digital currency, Jews, Putin, China, patriotism, even constitution has been converted into a label. “Marxism” (and any versions of this name) is just another vague term which is excellent to trigger a desired mind-controlled reaction.

When such terms are first presented to the public, they are charged negatively. As a linguistic structure, they are neutral, words like any other, simply describing a specific phenomenon. The negative charge is associated with them by the presentation of the context in which the target population (“we”) can paint their own image. PR companies will not tell you why the term should be interpreted negatively. The vaguer references they make, the more negative impression your imagination will build.

Once you create your own negative interpretation of the term, you will self-propel the suggested fear associations. The impression of a vague, intangible “enemy” will terrorise you into spreading your fear among your neighbors and colleagues. The governing PR-advised decision makers won’t need to do anything specific. You - we, the public - will become their loudspeakers. The propaganda effect will be achieved through you.

All labels which end with -ism are such trigger terms. You will create and build up negative images inspired in some ancient past by truly skillful master manipulators. The phenomenon may no longer be here, like the “threat of communism” of 1950s, those who created the label may no longer be here, that future generations of manipulator decision makers will continue to refer to the past label. Why? Because the population is made up of a number of overlapping generations, and some of them will be actively reminded of the “fear” which was made up when the label was first released to the public. These “infected” generations will spread the fear among the whole population.

Marx died in 1883 - ONE HUNDRED FORTY ONE (141) years ago. The “Marx” label has become so effective that we continue to allow ourselves to be enchanted/bewitched by it. It is beyond absurd. How can you believe that the current, modern trends in social manipulation have anything to do with a person or ideas buried so long ago?

Marxism died with Marx. His original ideas could have been borrowed, customized and applied, year after year, by all subsequent decision makers, both followers and antagonists. But the label is no longer valid.

If you do not want your mind to be controlled, you need to change the label. Update your firmware. McCarthyism is a great label, because it was current, pertinent, very specific and easily recognisable. This label died in 1957, though. It’s no longer here.

If you want your mind to be free of control, you need to update all these labels. Make connections to the persons who perpetuate particular ideas and label these ideas with their surnames. Make it specific. Make it verifiable. This is the only way to get rid of the old conditioning.

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Marxism is the ultimate ignorance because some misfits decide how everyone else will live in a dictatorship.

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Was this an exercise in AI? Because that's what the responses read like and felt like in this Q & A.

Repetitive, boring, fixed responses. So, for me, the subject matter is just another form of propaganda indoctrinating whomever into the difference between aged common sense education that used to be taught into a new form of woke education. What is said, described and formed between these polar opposites is a waste of politically correct grammar that we've all heard before

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more i read about Friere the more i liked! Thank you

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Once again this substack shows that it is one of the few substacks that provides the most valuable content.

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It's amazing to now see you get into Marxism and through your interviews or discussions illustrate that without question you know less than zero about Marxism.

Please tell the audience how much of Marx you have read. You should be able to get into some details on this if you have any depth of knowledge on the matter.

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Just got thru listening to his time with Joe Rogan while working out recently.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IlRNjBQm5Y

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