Promoting Climate Propaganda in Public Education: Marx and Engels Would Be Proud

By E. Calvin Beisner

For a couple of decades I have asked, “Who in his right mind ever thought it made any sense whatever to entrust to the government the shaping of the minds of the people by whose consent it is supposed to govern?” I cannot imagine a question more suitably designed to lay bare the totalitarian tendency of government-run “education.”

The tenth point of the Communist Manifesto calls for “Free education for all children in public schools.”

Marx and Engels knew exactly why this was important: because it would undercut freedom of thought not, initially, by obviously draconian restrictions (such as the threat to prosecute those who question the magnitude, causes, risks and benefits of, and best responses to global warming) but rather by the subtle substitution of propaganda for free thought.

The founders of “public” schooling in America, working even before the 1848 release of the Communist Manifesto, knew precisely why they wanted to replace the private, locally controlled, mostly church-run schools that dominated education in America with government-run schools: to “socialize” American youth, that is, to make them fit to function as unquestioning cogs in the socialist machine......Read more