Why are college professors, journalists, and all other intellectuals so left-wing? Why do they so unanimously embrace as destructive an ideology as (neo) liberalism? Every day, academics rabidly defend the very ideas that will destroy their lifestyle and professions. Why?
French philosopher Jean-Claude Michéa explains this seemingly strange phenomenon.
The growing impossibility, which [intellectuals] experience first-hand, of finding positions consistent with their former prestige is obviously tied to the evolution of a society that knows of no value worthy of greater respect than exchange value. Corporations are not inclined to offer people who live for ideas the same rewards-real or symbolic-that the latter once received from royal courts, salons, and academies. Consequently, intellectuals tend to have a negative eexperience of a system that by virtue of its very structure humiliates them. This is why, Orwell maintains, since
“about 1930 everyone who might be described as an ‘intellectual’ has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.” The intellectuals’ hatred of the existing order feeds primarily off the contradiction between their consciousness of their abilities and capitalist society’s practical indifference to them. In short, the intellectual’s attitude of rejection is underpinned by a will to power—one that is nothing more than the humiliated consciousness’ desire for recognition.Jean-Claude Michéa, Towards a Conservative Left
Sorry for a long quote but I’m about to start bugging everybody with Michéa who is my most recent discovery and a favorite new fad.
It’s always France (and sometimes Italy) that produces interesting ideas these days. Everybody else is absent from the field where thinking happens.
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Its a fairly simple two step answer. First step was the 1930s communists “educators” who fled from Germany into America and took root in I believe it was the University of Columbus. Whatever the name, it was one of the high ranking universities which produced a lot of the countries educators.
Step two is hiring bias. Its the same reason that any business that puts an Indian (dot not feather) in charge of hiring, tends to become an Indian majority company in less than a decade. Indians will prioritize the hiring of other Indians even if there are better qualified candidates.
Similarly communists who are placed in charge of hiring in colleges, high schools, lower campuses. Will also prioritize hiring other communists, leftists, gays and trans. Even if there are better qualified candidates.
After all both groups are minorities, marginalized, and oppressed. So how dare anyone mention that they have prioritized hiring for their own people or political party members.
That was the sort of thing that if you pointed it out five years ago would get you ostracized. And while not tossed in jail, there was the distinct possibility of loosing your job.
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Columbia University?
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Maybe. It was one of the famous ones. I think its name had Columbus or Columbia in it, so possibly. I do know they focused on teaching the teachers, and those who were trained by them tended to be communists themselves or communist sympathizers. Which is how the spread kicked off in the first place.
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Columbia’s one of the ivy-league ones that gave prof. jobs to 70s terrorists.
Columbus University is a state school in Georgia.
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Seventy??
No wonder there’s no spot for me.
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No, Weather Underground kidnappers and bombers from the 1970s, once they got out of jail.
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I did a quick google search as this was bothering me. The communists in the German education system according to google fled to Columbia in 1935, which seems late. So I suspect it was likely over a period of a few years and by 1935 they were finished and now entrenched in Columbia like they were in Germany before being run out.
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Aha! So we are talking about Unis *in Columbia* not Unis *named Columbia* necessarily. This makes much more sense 😀
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Dot not feather. 😂😂😂 Loved it.
All true.
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– W
You are thinking of the Frankfurt School, communist German Jewish academics that wisely fled fascism to become professors at Columbia University. Their Marxist theories evolved to include critical race, feminist, and post colonial theories that engulfed the humanities and social sciences in the 60’s and 70’s.
They fled one totalitarian authoritarian system to only support another totalitarian authoritarian system; despite all the self-righteous horseshit, the only difference between fascist concentration camps and communist gulags is which marginalized group is oppressed and worked to death.
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oldcowboy gets it.
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Imagine arriving to a country 5 minutes ago and launching a entire school of thought devoted to proving why the everyday white christian personality type of your host nation is fascist, actually. The chutzpah!
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In France, government spending is almost 60% of gdp, so I don’t know why they are complaining about corporations. The money available to intellectuals is vastly greater than in the days of royal courts, when it was only a handful or favored individuals.
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