I could do without prefixes, be it "pro-" or "anti-" What I find depressing is the near-total ignorance, even among fellow academics, about the real theries, practices and history of communism/socialism.
I learned much from my Social-Democrat father AND my Communist Party member mother, some more from living in Hungary during the stupyingly grey years 1948-1956, and even more from classes and seminars at various universities in the US. Thirty-plus years of college lecturing was also an educating experience.
What I would like to see is straight-forward critical courses that appreciate as well as critique all of the -isms we endured during the past squalid century, and perhaps prospect of what we could learn from those decades.
If nothing else, such an education could/would make daily discourse in American public life (even in beer-halls!) far less repulsively obdurant.
I could do without prefixes, be it "pro-" or "anti-" What I find depressing is the near-total ignorance, even among fellow academics, about the real theries, practices and history of communism/socialism.
I learned much from my Social-Democrat father AND my Communist Party member mother, some more from living in Hungary during the stupyingly grey years 1948-1956, and even more from classes and seminars at various universities in the US. Thirty-plus years of college lecturing was also an educating experience.
What I would like to see is straight-forward critical courses that appreciate as well as critique all of the -isms we endured during the past squalid century, and perhaps prospect of what we could learn from those decades.
If nothing else, such an education could/would make daily discourse in American public life (even in beer-halls!) far less repulsively obdurant.
Reforming pedagogy is the key to preventing another holodomor, except it isn't happening because the academies have become overwhelmingly woke.