Tag Archives: The Communist Manifesto

They Are Your Children, Not The State’s!

Posted on February 16, 2022 by David E Smith

Many politicians and educators want to steal our children. According to these activists, parents can feed and house children, but can’t guide their education or tell them how to choose right from wrong. Parents merely act as custodians of the State’s property. Here are recent samples of this line of thinking.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Elizabeth Bartholet, Friedrich Engels, Grover Cleveland, James Dwyer, Joe Mathews, Karl Marx, Noah Berlatsky, Paul Vallas, Ronald Reagan, Terry McAuliffe, The Communist Manifesto, Wisconsin v. Yoder | Comments Off

How John Dewey Used Public ‘Education’ to Subvert Liberty

Posted on March 13, 2021 by David E Smith

Dewey is often lauded as the founding father of the “progressive” education that now has more than 85 percent of American children in its grip. Although he wasn’t alone—he stood on the shoulders of fellow collectivists Robert Owen and Horace Mann—Dewey certainly deserves much of the credit, or blame, for unleashing it on the United States and humanity.

Posted in Education | Tagged Bernie Sanders, collectivism, Edward Bellamy, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Looking Backward, National Assessment of Educational Prog, public education, Robert Owen, The Communist Manifesto | Comments Off

The Genesis of Public Schools: Collectivism and Failure

Posted on February 25, 2021 by David E Smith

Standardized tests show Americans are getting dumber and dumber with each passing year. And polls now consistently show that more than half of young Americans today prefer socialism over freedom. This is obviously not sustainable—at least if the United States is going to survive as a free society.

It’s also not an accident.

Posted in Education | Tagged Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld, Federalist Papers, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Orestes Brownson, Robert Owen, The Communist Manifesto | Comments Off

Harvard Law Professor Wants to Ban Homeschooling

Posted on April 22, 2020 by David E Smith

An article written by freelance writer Erin O’Donnell and published in Harvard Magazine has justifiably gone viral among the diverse homeschooling communities operating in the United States—for the moment the freest nation in the world. The article, titled “The Risks of Homeschooling,” is accompanied by a cartoon illustration of half a dozen children romping joyfully outside while one child locked behind the prison bars of her own home looks forlornly and longingly out at them. One of the exterior walls of her home depicts books with the words “Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Bible” to ensure readers know that the …

Posted in Education | Tagged Arizona Law Review, Cardus Education Survey, Elizabeth Bartholet, Erin O’Donnell, Harvard Magazine, he Washington Post, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Joseph A. Morris, Marxism, Ronald Reagan, The Communist Manifesto, The New York Times | Comments Off

Family is the Enemy of Socialism

Posted on June 20, 2016 by David E Smith

Last week I looked at the history of the original socialists and at what Pope Francis aptly termed their “ideological colonization” of the family and marriage, work that started in the 19th century with the likes of Robert Owen, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Barack Obama, Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, Friedrich Engels, John Bachtell, Karl Marx, Matteo Renzi, People’s World, Pope Francis, Robert Owen, Socialist Party USA, Stanley Kurtz, The Communist Manifesto | Comments Off