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Reply #840 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:20pm

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:12pm:

Dnarever wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:04pm:

Look at the list apparently I am a cultural Marxist ? I was even bold.

I am a proud Groucho Marxist - I suspect the only cultural marxist in existance.

Are you asking to be removed?

You do not follow Monk?

While Monk is one of the rather intelligent members here I do not follow anyone. As likely the only genuine cultural Marxist in existance I am proud to be on the list, even in bold was good.

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Reply #841 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:29pm

Dnarever wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:20pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:12pm:

Dnarever wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:04pm:

Look at the list apparently I am a cultural Marxist ? I was even bold.

I am a proud Groucho Marxist - I suspect the only cultural marxist in existance.

Are you asking to be removed?

You do not follow Monk?

While Monk is one of the rather intelligent members here I do not follow anyone. As likely the only genuine cultural Marxist in existance I am proud to be on the list, even in bold was good.

OK - in bold.

Updated list of Ozpolitic Cultural Marxists: 3/1/24

LTYC,
FTLW,
Smith,
Greggy,
Mothra,
Athos,
AiA,
Jim,
Monk,

(a possible leader)

Random,
Marla,
Dnarever.
Brian,
Kat,
AusGeoff.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45888 Gender:	Re: Cultural Marxism is everywhere. Reply #842 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:09pm Oh for god’s sake, can’t you dial down the stupidity in your posts?
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45888 Gender:	Re: Cultural Marxism is everywhere. Reply #843 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:13pm Updated list of Ozpolitic intelligent and informed members: LTYC, FTLW, Smith, Greggy, Mothra, Athos, AiA, Jim, Monk, (a possible leader<== Oh don’t be such a fucking tosspot! ) Random, Marla, Dnarever. Brian, Kat, AusGeoff.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45888 Gender:	Re: Cultural Marxism is everywhere. Reply #844 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:17pm On top of all the crap you have posted about the nonsensical idea of cultural marxism there is the fact FTLW has left here as has Random and Kat is dead.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45888 Gender:	Re: Cultural Marxism is everywhere. Reply #845 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:18pm Why don’t you drop this utter nonsense and spend some time managing your board, hell, maybe even start an environmental thread. If you can.
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 102926 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Cultural Marxism is everywhere. Reply #846 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:29pm Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:17pm: On top of all the crap you have posted about the nonsensical idea of cultural marxism there is the fact FTLW has left here as has Random and Kat is dead. The spirit of dead communists live on forever: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot.
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Reply #847 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:37pm

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:29pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:17pm:

On top of all the crap you have posted about the nonsensical idea of cultural marxism there is the fact FTLW has left here as has Random and Kat is dead.

The spirit of dead communists live on forever:
Stalin,
Mao,
Pol Pot.

No culture here ?

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Reply #848 - Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:41pm

Dnarever wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:37pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:29pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:17pm:

On top of all the crap you have posted about the nonsensical idea of cultural marxism there is the fact FTLW has left here as has Random and Kat is dead.

The spirit of dead communists live on forever:
Stalin,
Mao,
Pol Pot.

No culture here ?

It's the Woke culture now - you know - the one you see on the ABC ?

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Reply #849 - Jan 4^th, 2024 at 6:30am

Gay got her job because of her race. No white professor, even a female one, would have been elevated to the premier college presidency in the United States on so meager a research record. It is fitting, then, that Gay plays the race card to the end. She lauds her abortive presidency as giving hope to those around the world who saw in it a “vision of Harvard that affirmed their sense of belonging.” In other words, without a black president, students “of color” would not be certain of belonging at Harvard. Never mind that for decades Harvard has so enthusiastically sought out black students that it admitted many of them with academic credentials that would have been all but disqualifying if presented by whites and Asians. Now, without a black president, that vision is apparently threatened, even as Gay concedes that Harvard’s “doors remain open.”

Gay’s sense of self-worth is breathtaking. She already has a legacy in mind for her five-month long presidency, the shortest in Harvard’s history. She hopes that her tenure is remembered “as a moment of reawakening to the importance of striving to find our common humanity.” Before her presidency, in other words, Harvard was deficient in the striving-for-common-humanity department. Never mind that Gay had auditioned for the presidency with a call to infuse the hunt for racism throughout every corner of the university, an academic agenda based on the idea that America remains a perennially white supremacist country. As president, she was true to her word, introducing what the Corporation euphemistically calls “ambitious new academic initiatives” in “inequality.”

The mission of a university, however, is the transmission of a civilizational inheritance and the testing of new knowledge. The goal of “finding a common humanity” (or, even worse, of combatting “bias and hate,” as Gay also puts it) serves as a pretext for the therapeutic diversity infrastructure.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-presses-on-with-inclusiveness

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Reply #850 - Jan 4^th, 2024 at 6:37am

The Harvard Corporation asserts that Harvard’s core values are “excellence, inclusiveness, and free inquiry and expression.” That latter item—free inquiry and expression—can be ignored. It is so far from the truth that it means nothing. Harvard has tolerated a reign of academic conformity and the informal silencing of intellectual dissent. Its left-wing leaders, including the Harvard Corporation, remain blind to their own hypocrisy regarding free speech, since they apparently do not believe in the legitimacy of non-dogmatic views on race, sex, or personal responsibility.

But the Corporation’s reassertion of its commitment to “inclusiveness” is an important marker of the future. The term is particularly charged following the Supreme Court’s ruling this summer invalidating racial preferences in college admissions. When the decision came down, then-president Lawrence Bacow signaled that Harvard would do everything it could to retain its regime of “inclusiveness.” Its subsequent actions have only confirmed that intent. At present, “excellence” and “inclusiveness” (as the latter is currently defined) are mutually exclusive. Thanks to the academic skills gap, a university can be meritocratically excellent or it can be demographically inclusive. It cannot be both. That is why inclusiveness must be affirmed as a separate value from excellence. In a meritocratic world, the only values a university would care about including are those pertaining to academic achievement.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-presses-on-with-inclusiveness

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Reply #851 - Jan 4^th, 2024 at 6:52am

Claudine Gay is a mediocre scholar—having authored 11 insight-less papers and no books—and hardly a superstar of the Ivy League constellation. But she comes from a privileged background and was elevated for advancing progressive orthodoxy while checking the right intersectional boxes. Her ascent thus epitomizes the illiberal takeover of higher education. She is the apotheosis of an anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

This illiberal takeover goes beyond what conservatives have criticized for decades: hippies invading the faculty lounge at Berkeley. It manifests in the shifting and narrowing of the range of permissible views, such that everyone on campus walks on eggshells and is unable to discuss certain ideas. University officials placate, facilitate, and even foment mobs that can’t be reasoned with, while everyone else keeps their heads down so as not to be caught in the cancellation crossfire.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-real-problem-remains

Cultural Marxism = anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

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Reply #852 - Jan 4^th, 2024 at 7:02am

Frank wrote on Jan 4^th, 2024 at 6:52am:

Claudine Gay is a mediocre scholar—having authored 11 insight-less papers and no books—and hardly a superstar of the Ivy League constellation. But she comes from a privileged background and was elevated for advancing progressive orthodoxy while checking the right intersectional boxes. Her ascent thus epitomizes the illiberal takeover of higher education. She is the apotheosis of an anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

This illiberal takeover goes beyond what conservatives have criticized for decades: hippies invading the faculty lounge at Berkeley. It manifests in the shifting and narrowing of the range of permissible views, such that everyone on campus walks on eggshells and is unable to discuss certain ideas. University officials placate, facilitate, and even foment mobs that can’t be reasoned with, while everyone else keeps their heads down so as not to be caught in the cancellation crossfire.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-real-problem-remains

Cultural Marxism = anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

Diversity is where countries and academic excellence go to die.

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Reply #853 - Jan 4^th, 2024 at 12:10pm

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 6:04pm:

Communism is all about an elite class of people who rule over the workers.

But "Marxism" and "communism" are conflated in the simple brain; whereas Stalinist Russia and Marxism are different phenomena.

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That's exactly what we have in Australia.
Top members of the communist party always lived lives of extreme luxury.

Here you are comparing the lives of the ruling class in Communist Russia, with the elites who are ruling Oz.

Marx spoke against both: "Workers of the world, Unite".

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The Labor Govt actually kept their mass immigration numbers secret until about 2 months ago.
All main stream media was predicting: house, unit and apartment prices to fall drastically
as 11 interest rate raise in a row would force over 100,000 mortgage holders to sell up
putting a huge supply of property on the market -
even a price collapse.
Mass immigration caused high demand and skyrocketing prices
exactly the opposite of what everyone was predicting.
I personally know of units that went up 25% in the last year.
I saw houses go up over $200K in one year too.
$800K to well over $1 million.

Yes, but nothing to do with either Marx, OR 'cultural Marxism'; because you continue to ignore the crushing influence of mainstream economists:

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/economist-warns-of-cutting-immigration-in-a...

Economist warns of cutting immigration in Australia

Cutting immigration to combat the country's housing shortage is shortsighted and risks wage and productivity growth, according to KPMG Australia Chief Economist Brendan Rynne.

'Chief Economist'....a typical product of delusional economics departments in the world's universities.

The film "Finding the Money" is due for release in Oz in March; it may herald a new age of enlightened thinking about money and economic justice. i

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Reply #854 - Jan 4^th, 2024 at 12:17pm

Frank wrote on Jan 4^th, 2024 at 7:02am:

Frank wrote on Jan 4^th, 2024 at 6:52am:

Claudine Gay is a mediocre scholar—having authored 11 insight-less papers and no books—and hardly a superstar of the Ivy League constellation. But she comes from a privileged background and was elevated for advancing progressive orthodoxy while checking the right intersectional boxes. Her ascent thus epitomizes the illiberal takeover of higher education. She is the apotheosis of an anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

This illiberal takeover goes beyond what conservatives have criticized for decades: hippies invading the faculty lounge at Berkeley. It manifests in the shifting and narrowing of the range of permissible views, such that everyone on campus walks on eggshells and is unable to discuss certain ideas. University officials placate, facilitate, and even foment mobs that can’t be reasoned with, while everyone else keeps their heads down so as not to be caught in the cancellation crossfire.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-real-problem-remains

Cultural Marxism = anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

Diversity is where countries and academic excellence go to die.

See - Frank making a song and dance about "diversity" and its perceived influence in the community, ie, cultural marxist BS, rather than tackling the REAL issues of economic injustice which Marx was addressing.

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