Glenn Beck "Marxist revolution global in nature"

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http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/10/15/glenn-on-oreilly-factor-occupy-wall-street-global-in-nature/

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I mean he's right about it being global in nature. However, he is doing the typical reactionary fear mongering.

[RedZezz]

Unfortunatly, I have decided that political pundits are a terrible, terrible source of news. I don't mind openly right-wing news sources, and I think it wouldn't hurt if socialist read some of the more principled ones, but Glenn Beck is as far from principled as humanly possible.

Don't even give him the time of day.

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Oh I don't take a thing he says seriously. I just find it interesting how he is in fact talking about a Marxist revolution, and how he is warning people. The fact that this is being even mentioned shows the relevance of Marx, and their insane fear of revolution.

Also, I think if you view his shows with a sense of humor, you will just laugh your ass of at the stupidity he spouts from his mouth....And then cry about how many people actually take him seriously.

[Tim Cornelis]

Sometimes you wish what Glenn Beck says is true. Then we could have a social revolution tomorrow, unfortunately it's not so :(

[molotovcocktail]

This is a Marxist revolution
I wish

[Bardo]

I think comrade Beck is a bit optimistic

[Rafiq]

So how come the Stalinists don't get this but Glenn Beck does?

[Luís Henrique]

But, but, didn't Marxism come to an end in 1981, with the fall of the Soviet Union, and all that?

Luís Henrique

[Commissar Rykov]

I wish Glenn Beck would go choke on something and do everyone a favor. Otherwise it is just his typical tinfoil hat ranting that Fox continues to support.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Yeah, Glen Beck is still mired in the "failed Marxist solutions of the past", as Tea Partiers like to say. What we need to work on is success Marxist solutions for the future Although of course, I hate how the term "solution" has been appropriated by corporate-speak

"We offer staffing solutions for all your needs..
We offer educational solutions..."

[SHORAS]

I must admit I laughed when he said something like "we are paying our institutions to indoctrinate our kids into Marxism" - Not being from the USA but I can say "if only!" I would welcome materialist and dialectic understanding compared to the utter shit I was fed which was basically times, dates, Great Men and an unhealthy double dose idealism.

[eric922]

I must admit I laughed when he said something like "we are paying our institutions to indoctrinate our kids into Marxism" - Not being from the USA but I can say "if only!" I would welcome materialist and dialectic understanding compared to the utter shit I was fed which was basically times, dates, Great Men and an unhealthy double dose idealism.
If what Beck says is true then how come when I took my required econ 101 course last year did I never hear the name Marx mentioned? How come I heard mostly about the Chicago School style economics? There may be a few Marxists in universities, but they aren't teaching economics. There was a sociology professor who openly called our current rescission a crisis of capitalism. So she may possibly have been a Marxist, but I'm willing to bet that most Marxists or socialists are in the sociology department, and that isn't the most influential of departments.

[NewLeft]

If what Beck says is true then how come when I took my required econ 101 course last year did I never hear the name Marx mentioned? How come I heard mostly about the Chicago School style economics? There may be a few Marxists in universities, but they aren't teaching economics. There was a sociology professor who openly called our current rescission a crisis of capitalism. So she may possibly have been a Marxist, but I'm willing to bet that most Marxists or socialists are in the sociology department, and that isn't the most influential of departments.

Very very true, we never mentioned Marx in our economics courses.. We talked about Hayek, Mises and Friedman for weeks though.

[eric922]

Very very true, we never mentioned Marx in our economics courses.. We talked about Hayek, Mises and Friedman for weeks though.
Hell, even Keynes isn't mentioned very often and he was a capitalist.

[Rafiq]

I wish my Econ class never mentioned Marx. They did, and they slandered him.

[Tablo]

Funny. My dad received his MBA and was required to read Capital in graduate school. I think in higher levels of education they are more understanding of how brilliant Marx's examination of capitalism is.

[Rafiq]

Because Public school is basically

"THIS IS HOW IT IS, NO IFS OR BUTS".

And Private Schools or College are like:

"This is what we are teaching you, but feel free to disagree because we aren't being absolutist".

It is almost as if the government is giving us this shit education because they feel that it's free and this is what we get in return.

[RadioRaheem84]

Public university standard curriculum is reactionary. Usually you have to look for the Marxists in the sociology department.

At Private schools Marx is taught but more as they would also teach old literature or the Bible, as things of the past one must know.

The way they treat Marx though makes it obvious he is dangerous read and a man ahead of his time.

[Rafiq]

Public university standard curriculum is reactionary. Usually you have to look for the Marxists in the sociology department.

At Private schools Marx is taught but more as they would also teach old literature or the Bible, as things of the past one must know.

The way they treat Marx though makes it obvious he is dangerous read and a man ahead of his time.

It's because the Bourgeoisie wants to make sure that the majority of the masses (They go into public universities and schools) are kept with their heads in shit and are overwealmed with propaganda.

A lot of the time Bourgeois students go into Private School, so they don't really see a harm in teaching Marx to the future ruling class, anyway.

[ZeroNowhere]

And Private Schools or College are like:

"This is what we are teaching you, but feel free to disagree because we aren't being absolutist".
I'm not sure that that's true of most private schools, to be honest. Universities, maybe. Neither seem to actually teach Marx very well, though.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I went to public school before college. Marx was only mentioned once, in my senior year, because somebody asked about him. But, it was a self-professed "Libertarian" trying to make a joke about government control.

Then I went to a private university. Marx was taught briefly in Econ 101, but slandered as someone said with their school earlier in the thread. Friedman was all but deified.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

What I liked was right after that Geraldo Rivera was on and Bill asked him what he thought about what Glenn said and he said Glenn was delusional. Yeah I had to watch that shit live, my grandparents suck when it comes to politics :sneaky:

[Die Rote Fahne]

The spectre of communism haunts Glen Beck.

[SHORAS]

The spectre of communism haunts Glen Beck.

I would very much agree with this. :D

On the school thing. Apart from some coursework we did on the Russian Revolution which I got an A*:D for at GCSE (it was all times, dates, this happened, then this happened and copied from a text book I might add!) we never heard of communism or Marx even though at A-level I took History, Politics and Philosophy - though that might be stretching it to call it that.

I've never understood this claptrap about Marxism being in schools or the BBC being some left wing entity. Total bollocks.

Can't talk about Uni cos I couldn't be arsed to go. School was miserable enough to do another four years seemed like madness plus I had the experience of a brother and sister who still had not payed off their Uni debts years after they had left. Had poor paying jobs anyway and were not better off, perhaps worse off than a lot of people who did not go to Uni.