...even when confronted with the falseness of your words you twist and squirm and fight like a caged cat that thinks if it screeches enough and shows a claw or two its going to have a chance.

In fact, the only course Marx is taught as a predominant theme in is in Rhetoric/Literature classes in english departments, due to his notion of the Dialectic. You might find him as a minor player in obscure graduate history courses as well.

And...

I have NEVER met a marxist economist.

I go on and show you that Marx alive and well in economics classes in universities throughout the nation and you try and twist it now as inconsequential. Buck chimes in with his encounter with a Marxist professor and we see that not only is Marxism alive and well but that professors are not rare or are all of them as you put it:

...MOST (like 90%) of economics professors are Business men in some stage of retirement (highest paid academic career short of some engineering fields).

Your "so-called" fact (even including a nice percentage such as 90%) I think may be a figment of your "fevered" imagination. You still have not hung out around enough academicians if you think many of them are retired businessmen. Academia is a career in itself - even for economics professors (perhaps especially for economics professors ;-) Businessmen and acadamicians are natural adversaries. Teaching economists are more often philosophers - seldom businessmen. If one goes straight from college into a teaching field and one has never experienced the ruthless competition, cutthroat survival skills and practical wisdom one develops in the private sector, then one is poorly suited to teach economics. I wish that more teaching economists were businessmen- however if you are a good businessman, the odds of one deciding to turn to teaching in academialand are hovering near nil. All one learns in academia is which top-tier players boots to keep shiny - or at least which folks shoes not to let your dog poop on. Eventually, one gets seniority and tenure and then one can fairly comfortably teach whatever one wants and get away with it. This may be an exaggeration - but not by much. It's a very secure job track and one can't fault folks for seeking it out. Get hooked up in the right institution and one can teach for forty years if one wants too.

you know nothing of academia, SDAI- don't pretend to

You haven't been aroung here long enough (hard to believe isn't it?) to know that I come from a family of professors and teachers on one side and politicians on the other - and that I grew up in a very learned environment where shoptalk was school talk and school politics and "politics" politics - a bizarre yet very educational mix. And you haven't met academicians until you have met German academicians - they are a whole different breed and are intense. Roughly about five to ten times as intense and opinionated as you are....and many take offense easily as well.

;-)

And then to cap it all off... you insult me with this line:

Marxist economics 101 abounding on college is like most of your so-called facts... A myth or a figment of your fevered right-leaning mind.

I illustrated that my "so-called" fact is indeed a fact. Marxist economics is alive and kicking on collge campuses - and the more elite the campus (or the more European it is) the more likely you are to bump into a Marxist economics professor.

Trust me...in Europe almost ALL the economics teachers are like Buck's. Unashamed Marxists who believe capitalism is the primary source of the worlds ills and that applied regimented collectivist and revised Marxist approaches will bring order and prosperity to the suffering masses of the world. Don't forget Buck is up in Canada (if I recall correctly;-) and academia generally takes a decidedly left turn up north.

While arguing about the value of teaching Marxism is further than I wanted to get into with this post, I will say a few important words in regards to that debate. All things have good sides and bad sides. If one shields folks from certain views and information - that does them harm. However, when a teacher is an outspoken proponent of such and tries to convert students to a particular point of view - misusing the trust placed in one as a teacher to be somewhat objective - that is when advocacy of Marxism or advocacy of any other extreme positions, be it religion or politics, is detrimental to enough pliable students as to be looked for and checked.

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