Re:The Slow Death of the University (2015)
by tmptmp on Saturday January 02, 2016 @07:55AM
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I didn't say scientist didn't work for communists or other tyrants. Also, AFAIK there is no loud and unequivocal criticism published by these academics on the same scale/volume as they have for the western systems. Can you give me some papers published by these academics which contain loud and unequivocal criticism of communism/Marxism?
Re:The Slow Death of the University (2015)
by Fomite on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @12:15PM
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I'm not going to do a literature search in a field that's not my own just to satisfy someone on HN, but I will give you two paraphrased quotes from classes I took:
- "How the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariate' was ever supposed to just naturally fade away was left undiscussed, and clearly never occurred."
- "Marx's writing, while a well-reasoned critique of capitalism, failed to provide a workable alternate solution."
Both of these were from fairly leftist professors. One should note that, at this point, "Western Systems" are really all that's left, so yes, there's going to be more criticism of them. The Soviet Union collapsed. And China is now some sort of weird hybrid system - and if you're seriously going to argue that there's not academics in the humanities criticizing China, I really don't know what to say.
Because lord knows scientists have never worked with horrific regimes, right?
"Do we see any humanities criticizing the communism and Marxism based on the flaws in these corrupt ideologies?"
Umm...I see these all the time. Indeed, my first encounter with both Marx and the flaws of that system were from the humanities.