I think... just possibly, I owe you an apology. I stopped at the end of the first sentence of your second paragraph in “Lies Are Unbekoming’s” post (https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-marxification-of-education-by)... but you see, when someone says “I am a Marxist” I see Red. A different shade of Red perhaps, but Red, none-the-less... Then I read the rest of your comment, what you’ve been through at the hands of The Academy.. a more atrocious meatgrinder would be hard to imagine. But really.. the garbage you have to endure, the gauntlet you have to run, to obtain and retain an academic chair? It just ain’t worth the candle.
Two personal stories.. September 1993, just after I moved in with my girlfriend who became my wife, she sponsored her parents from China who lived in the apartment with us.. I was having trouble with my previous roommate, “Lily”, who let it be known she was going to the police over issues... My eventual mother-in-law learned of this and had a total meltdown.. The stress she had experienced during the Cultural Revolution had resulted in a massive stroke at 45, she was paralyzed and speechless for 3 months, but when she somewhat recovered, her medical career was over. I had to comfort her with “Chi-bin: This is not China. This is Canada. You are safe here. Lily can’t hurt you! — ‘Ne ting de dong ma’?” I finished off in my almost non-existent Chinese.. she understood...
Meanwhile you speak of “Woke”, the genocide in Palestine, Tony Fraudci, the murder of John Lennon, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, critical theory, critical race theory, transgenderism; latterly the Covid Scamdemic and “Climate change” — all this is Marxism. I understand you don’t want it to be that: You want it to be what it pretends to be; this noble crusade for the liberation and rights of Humanity. But it isn’t. Deceit, dissimulation and mass murder are Marxism’s stock-in-trade; it is nothing but an elaborate fraud cooked up by the Rothschild Crime Syndicate. Thus my anger.
The second story happened much, much earlier.. about 1985 after wasting 6 years in university majoring in music, I somehow managed to score a gig as a musician. One of very few graduates from my university who managed it. Nothing amazing, it was a job in one of the Canadian Armed Forces’ military bands. I applied at University of Calgary for their Masters in Music Performance Program; they requested letters of reference.. so I asked 2 of my professors and my instructor for same – and the two-faced backstabbing shits each sent letters not recommending me! And that was that... And, thanks to a drunken Master Warrant Officer’s relentless malicious whisper campaign two years later I was kicked out of the military on about the lowest honorable release category they could find, and since then? About 40 years of dead-end shit-jobs, temp work, unemployment insurance and welfare. It’s not been much fun. But in the end, my discharge card was of far more value to me than my degree ever was, and I’m now supporting a wife, our cat, and her vaccine-injured daughter on a security guard’s wages. I got that job, courtesy of my discharge card...
So there’s my story for you. Please accept my apologies for what I wrote earlier, and I hope things get better for you.
Dear Roy, Thank y ou for your apology and your sympathy. However, of course, I strongly disagree with your statement that "“Woke”, the genocide in Palestine, Tony Fraudci, the murder of John Lennon, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, critical theory, critical race theory, transgenderism; latterly the Covid Scamdemic and “Climate change” — all this is Marxism."
Please provide any evidence that Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels ever supported or ever would support any of this. As I write in this article, there is a strong link of this to Blanquist totalitarianism. But Marx and Engels opposed Blanqui's totalitarian ideas, and argued instead for the creation of a democratic social republic, with full rights for all, a multiparty pluralistic society. What does "woke" have to do with any of that? As for my "conspiracy theories" about Fauci and the CIA, what was the virtue that Marx taught his children to be paramount? "Doubt". What does the blind faith that Centrist liberals now hold in the medical pharmaceutical establishment have to do with Marxism, which teaches a profound distrust in ALL bourgeois institutions? The two have nothing to do with each other. Check your own petite bourgeois privilege and mentality, for the reason as to why you are connecting them. You don't want to give them up to the workers. You want to keep your privileges--just like Blanqui, and Lenin! You're guilty of the same thing!
What an eye-glazer. Admittedly I've never heard of the neo-Blanquists before and now that I have, I wish I hadn't. The writings of these ass-clowns and your analysis is about on a par with this:
Dear Thomas...
I think... just possibly, I owe you an apology. I stopped at the end of the first sentence of your second paragraph in “Lies Are Unbekoming’s” post (https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-marxification-of-education-by)... but you see, when someone says “I am a Marxist” I see Red. A different shade of Red perhaps, but Red, none-the-less... Then I read the rest of your comment, what you’ve been through at the hands of The Academy.. a more atrocious meatgrinder would be hard to imagine. But really.. the garbage you have to endure, the gauntlet you have to run, to obtain and retain an academic chair? It just ain’t worth the candle.
Two personal stories.. September 1993, just after I moved in with my girlfriend who became my wife, she sponsored her parents from China who lived in the apartment with us.. I was having trouble with my previous roommate, “Lily”, who let it be known she was going to the police over issues... My eventual mother-in-law learned of this and had a total meltdown.. The stress she had experienced during the Cultural Revolution had resulted in a massive stroke at 45, she was paralyzed and speechless for 3 months, but when she somewhat recovered, her medical career was over. I had to comfort her with “Chi-bin: This is not China. This is Canada. You are safe here. Lily can’t hurt you! — ‘Ne ting de dong ma’?” I finished off in my almost non-existent Chinese.. she understood...
Meanwhile you speak of “Woke”, the genocide in Palestine, Tony Fraudci, the murder of John Lennon, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, critical theory, critical race theory, transgenderism; latterly the Covid Scamdemic and “Climate change” — all this is Marxism. I understand you don’t want it to be that: You want it to be what it pretends to be; this noble crusade for the liberation and rights of Humanity. But it isn’t. Deceit, dissimulation and mass murder are Marxism’s stock-in-trade; it is nothing but an elaborate fraud cooked up by the Rothschild Crime Syndicate. Thus my anger.
The second story happened much, much earlier.. about 1985 after wasting 6 years in university majoring in music, I somehow managed to score a gig as a musician. One of very few graduates from my university who managed it. Nothing amazing, it was a job in one of the Canadian Armed Forces’ military bands. I applied at University of Calgary for their Masters in Music Performance Program; they requested letters of reference.. so I asked 2 of my professors and my instructor for same – and the two-faced backstabbing shits each sent letters not recommending me! And that was that... And, thanks to a drunken Master Warrant Officer’s relentless malicious whisper campaign two years later I was kicked out of the military on about the lowest honorable release category they could find, and since then? About 40 years of dead-end shit-jobs, temp work, unemployment insurance and welfare. It’s not been much fun. But in the end, my discharge card was of far more value to me than my degree ever was, and I’m now supporting a wife, our cat, and her vaccine-injured daughter on a security guard’s wages. I got that job, courtesy of my discharge card...
So there’s my story for you. Please accept my apologies for what I wrote earlier, and I hope things get better for you.
Best,
Capt. Roy Harkness
Dear Roy, Thank y ou for your apology and your sympathy. However, of course, I strongly disagree with your statement that "“Woke”, the genocide in Palestine, Tony Fraudci, the murder of John Lennon, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, critical theory, critical race theory, transgenderism; latterly the Covid Scamdemic and “Climate change” — all this is Marxism."
Please provide any evidence that Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels ever supported or ever would support any of this. As I write in this article, there is a strong link of this to Blanquist totalitarianism. But Marx and Engels opposed Blanqui's totalitarian ideas, and argued instead for the creation of a democratic social republic, with full rights for all, a multiparty pluralistic society. What does "woke" have to do with any of that? As for my "conspiracy theories" about Fauci and the CIA, what was the virtue that Marx taught his children to be paramount? "Doubt". What does the blind faith that Centrist liberals now hold in the medical pharmaceutical establishment have to do with Marxism, which teaches a profound distrust in ALL bourgeois institutions? The two have nothing to do with each other. Check your own petite bourgeois privilege and mentality, for the reason as to why you are connecting them. You don't want to give them up to the workers. You want to keep your privileges--just like Blanqui, and Lenin! You're guilty of the same thing!
What an eye-glazer. Admittedly I've never heard of the neo-Blanquists before and now that I have, I wish I hadn't. The writings of these ass-clowns and your analysis is about on a par with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhc1hWXH5IM
Honk! Honk! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2TXY6SNuD4)
PS This is the last time I'll bother you... 😘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s
Yes I know that skit very well. It's very funny. What's your point, Roy? Where's your CRITIQUE of what I'm saying in the article?
If you're not going to be reasonable, then just go away
That WAS my critique! I'm ridiculing you Thomas, can't you tell? But I'll leave you alone after this, I promise.
PS You can check out my stuff here, I'm sure it will impress you not at all..
https://captroyharkness.substack.com/