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March 29, 2008 - 1:00 am - by Norman Geras
David Thomson
2008-03-29 12:28:01

Do you really want to know why much of Africa is a hellhole today? If so, you merely need to read this infamous quote by Marty Peretz:

“One of my special fields for the general examinations for the PhD was African nationalism. This was in the early sixties, and everywhere there was hope for the continent. The continent’s leaders were, it seemed, mostly graduates of the London School of Economics or had been trained in the (hypocritical) mores of French culture. No one would have imagined the catastrophe that is Africa now. No one.”

Harvard University and other left-wing intellectual whorehouses prevented any dissent from the naive view that radical socialists would create a utopia in Africa. such individuals had their careers ruined. It was well known that Marxist principles underpinned the revolutionary movements of the time. Sadly, the arrogant fools associated with our “better universities” thought they knew best.