The Enemy in Our Schools

Should an anti-American Marxist set the history curriculum for American schools?
 

April 18, 2018  Lloyd Billingsley 

 

 

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“If you’ve read Marx, there’s really no reason to read Howard Zinn,” notes author Daniel Flynn, but many have read Zinn’s million-selling A People’s History of the United States. As Rutgers history professor David Greenberg notes in a 2013 New Republic article headlined “Agit-Prof,” Zinn’s famous book is “a pretty lousy piece of work.” Even so, it gets great reviews within a circle of Marxist academics such as Eric Foner, leftist rockers such as Rage Against the Machine, and actors such as Matt Damon, who in Good Will Hunting tells his psychiatrist that A People’s History will “knock you on your ass.”............... Zinn’s handlers set about transforming the rotting corpse of his work into the keystone of America’s history curriculum.  wrote Daniel Greenfield in 2012. “His neo-Communist propaganda is being wedged deeper and deeper into the educational system, because teaching kids to hate America is the new education.”

 

As Greenfield learned, students have eNotes to explain Zinn and there are teaching editions for college and high school. An “entire spin-off industry” was busy adapting Zinn’s vision for lower grades, with works such as A Young People’s History and “a plethora of lesson materials is offered to teachers through the Zinn Education Project.”.............as Greenfield noted, leftist historian Eugene Genovese called Zinn’s book “incoherent left-wing sloganizing.”............Government monopoly education is a collective farm of ignorance, mediocrity and failure.........To Read More......