Ask Dr. Helen: How Can I Keep My Students From Becoming Little Marxists?
Heather: liberals “take money from people who earn a living and give it to people who don’t.”?! My goodness; here I thought that was a good working definition of 1. taxing agencies and 2. Boards of Directors. I must say I’ve rarely seen such a collection of knee-jerk prejudices and thoughtless slogan-spouting as in this commentariat. And you all preen yourselves on being intelligent, critical thinkers? I could equally well bad-mouth Ayn Rand as a pseudo-intellectual light-weight, and you would be well within your rights to slap me down, as I’ve never been able to slog through any of her turgid, tedious works of self-important muddled thinking. Karl Marx, for all his foolishness, was a deeper thinker and better writer than that woman (not that that’s saying much – Wile E. Coyote was a better writer, and he usually confined himself to “Mother!” and such-like).
As for all this silly uproar, did most of you even bother to read the actual letter before you mounted your hobby-horses for a wild, arm-flailing ride? I thought not.
