A College That Teaches Far Left Ideas?

[TheWhiteStreak]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask about this, but a while ago I had read something about a college that taught Communism or Far Leftist ideas. I tried looking it up on Google but couldn't find anything. I was wondering if anyone on here had heard of such a thing or had any information on it? I know there are colleges that have courses on these subjects but this was apparently a college based solely around far leftist ideas.

Thanks! :)

[Apoi_Viitor]

It probably was the new school for social research

[ZeroNowhere]

I don't know that there's that much demand for a degree in revolution, tbh.

[o well this is ok I guess]

The Brecht Forum?
That's not college, bro.

[Kadir Ateş]

The New School in New York City

[RadioRaheem84]

Again, the New School for the win.

Pace hosts the Left Forum.

UMass Amherst

[Q]

Online University of the Left (http://ouleft.org/) perhaps?

It's still under development.

[Astarte]

Online University of the Left (http://ouleft.org/) perhaps?

It's still under development.

Is this about when I mentioned the New School in NYC in the revleft chat? :p

http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/liberal-studies/?gclid=CNKY_8CJw6sCFULe4Aod3HEtwg

They pretty much take after the Frankfurt School, or were an attempt to emulate it.

Philosophical tradition
The New School continues the Graduate Faculty's tradition of synthesizing leftist American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy. True to its origin and its firm roots within the University in Exile, The New School, particularly its Department of Philosophy, is in the minority in the United States in offering students thorough training in the modern continental European philosophical tradition known as "Continental philosophy." Thus, it stresses the teachings of Parmenides, Aristotle, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, et al.[18] The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School: Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school. After the death of Hannah Arendt in 1975, the philosophy department revolved around Reiner Schurmann and Agnes Heller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_School

[black magick hustla]

the new school is the most brilliant con. make ppl pay 40k a year to hear some decrepit social democrat abortion from the 60s to convert you into activism. marx would be proud

[Susurrus]

There's some university in california that has some course in marxist studies. Not to mention if you want to go to China you can study it as an exchange student.

[wunderbar]

There's some university in california that offers a degree in marxist studies.

Not sure if this is the one you were thinking of, but UC Riverside offers a minor in Marxist studies.

[Susurrus]

Not sure if this is the one you were thinking of, but UC Riverside offers a minor in Marxist studies.

Yeah,that's probably it. I misspoke.

[RedGrunt]

UMass Amherst

Really? What of Umass ingeneral?

[black magick hustla]

i recommend strongly against going to college because of "politics" by the way. first student politics suck and are mostly irrelevant and its full of wannabe politicians and self appointed enlightened dickheads. second, most interesting theory today doesnt come from academia, but starts in laymen reading groups. most "marxists" are self taught, because its a thing you have to engage by yourself because its not a matter of knowing what marx exactly said, but what ideas does it inspire to you. most academic marxist dickheads ride the dick of adorno and other cynical losers

[The Douche]

My girl's friend went to the New School for a little while. She wasn't involved in politics, she said everybody there was a massive asshole, and they were all totally involved in their own little cliques and she couldn't make any friends.


She said I would fit in perfectly...:laugh:

[The Idler]

Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and ... - University of Glasgow (http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/sociology/socialisttheoryandmovement/)

[RadioRaheem84]

Really? What of Umass ingeneral?

UMass Economics is leftist.

UMass has Sut Jhally in communications.

The place is pretty left wing in the social science, if not Marxist then solidly left progressive.

[RedGrunt]

I never knew, but who may I ask is Sut Jhally and his relevance? (Didn't gather much from the wiki)

Just curious, but does anyone know the leftist state at MCLA? I was also interested in there and I assumed it would be in good shape, small or not.

Thanks ahead.

[blackandyellow]

Choose a normal degree and look into the lecturers at the departments, and see if any hold ideas you like. For example, the School of Oriental and African Studies has a lot of left wing economics lecturers.

Simply going to university to study 'Marxism', 'Anarchist Stuidies' or whatever seems abit weird. Study economics, history or something and then see how Marxist or Anarchist ideas relate to that.

[RadioRaheem84]

I never knew, but who may I ask is Sut Jhally and his relevance? (Didn't gather much from the wiki)

Just curious, but does anyone know the leftist state at MCLA? I was also interested in there and I assumed it would be in good shape, small or not.

Thanks ahead.

Sut Jhally is a great progressive left anti-capitalist communications professor. He deals more with culture and social issues than economic ones, but constantly stresses how Marx was right about class being a dominant factor in capitalist society.

You should hear some of his lectures on Youtube. They're brilliant

[Welshy]

Really? What of Umass ingeneral?

As a student there hopefully I can answer that a bit. Over all UMass is pretty good education wise. The Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Linguistics and the Japanese programs are really good from what I've heard (I'm a Linguistics Major so I can only really tell you about that). If you are out of state, like me, it will be expensive. But on the other had you get to take classes at the 4 other private schools in the area (Hampshire, Amherst, Smith and Mt. Holyoke) and a lot of sports related things and bussing is free here for students.

As RadioRaheem said, the economics department is dominated by marxists, though from what I have from people who have taken classes with those professors, they can have some weird ideas about marxism. There are also a few marxists/marxist sympathizers as a grad students, one of who is an ISO member. The Labor Studies Department has a lot of Solidarity members as well. The African-American studies program here is also fairly radical. And the Philosophy department has at least one marxist sympathizer (I'm not sure if he is marxist or not but in the class I had with him he was open about his sympathies towards marxism). Outside of the University the only left group that is active, is the ISO, though hopefully that will change as I start doing more stuff for the Workers Party in America/Workers Party in America Supporters' Organization. The rest of the community is fairly left liberal/progressive. With the Wisconsin solidarity stuff there has been an uptick in class consciousness in the working class here, though still about what most of the country's working class as experienced.

[RedGrunt]

I'll check him out, Raheem, thanks again. And thanks to you, Welshy.

Luckily, I live in state and am currently in a community college that offers easy transfer to UMass and I believe even a tuition deal depending on your GPA and such(might be instate, ingeneral). Umass has always been the most realistic option for me after community college, so I'm pretty thrilled that they have some leftists in faculty(albeit in Amherst from what you all know of).

[Welshy]

I'll check him out, Raheem, thanks again. And thanks to you, Welshy.

Luckily, I live in state and am currently in a community college that offers easy transfer to UMass and I believe even a tuition deal depending on your GPA and such(might be instate, ingeneral). Umass has always been the most realistic option for me after community college, so I'm pretty thrilled that they have some leftists in faculty(albeit in Amherst from what you all know of).

If you ever are in town and/or decide to go to UMass hit me up.

[Sam Varriano]

Evergreen State College has a class on Marxist Theory as well as a class based on the teachings of Howard Zinn. The also have a free shop which is trying to emulate that of a gift economy. it's a public liberal arts school near Seattle, check it out.