Founder of American Marxism
Radical: John Dewey 1859 – 1952
Quote: “Till the Great Society is converted in to a Great Community, the Public will remain in eclipse. Communication can alone create a great community”
As we have discussed previously the principles of Marxism and the Frankfurt’s School members entering the United States, it is important to understand who is responsible for engineering the machine of Marxism within the American school system. It was the Hegelian ideals and his elimination of God that was the seed to Marxism in our schools. Nor can we ignore Dewey’s University of Columbia ties to these Frankfurt school Marxists.
John Dewey is most noted for his non-conventional teaching method. Interestingly enough his teachings of communication fall directly in-line with that of Jurgen Haburmas and also have been similar to the principles of Mao Zedong. Obviously this claim is extremely hard to validate in this forum and may require a full understanding both of these Progressives way of thought. What is simple to point out is their belief in the Dialectic Process used through conversation and communication is a common thread thought the execution of their theories.
Schools prior to John Dewey were firm and rigid teaching math, science, history, English, and in some Religion. Children learned the basic knowledge that they could use as tools when they stepped into the real world. John Dewey believed differently. He wrote in his book “Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education”:
"What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. This education consists primarily in transmission through communication. Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession."
Education was a social preparation instead of a preparation for children to use facts as tools to make up their own individual minds on social issues once they enter the societal sphere. This was Dewey’s theory that was the foundation for implementing dialectic process and indoctrination.
Example 1:
Fact or thesis: Our founding fathers were plantation owners and owned slaves
Opinion or anti-thesis: Our founding fathers were racists.
[/b]Synthesis:[/b] Our founding fathers were racist plantation owners who were out of touch evil and their knowledge should be discredited.
Example 2:
Fact or thesis: The Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Opinion or anti-thesis: There are some that believe that God exists and some that don’t believe that God exists.
[/b]Synthesis:[/b] The Declaration of Independence is an outdated document because not all Americans believe that God exists.
What must be understood is what this does to our society. The statement that Dewey makes that education is education to social life is an absolute farce. I would ask, “what society?” Is it the student’s family and neighborhood society? Is it the society of Vermont? Well if it is a Vermont society, how does it prepare the student for the New York society?
This dialectic process is to simply strip down the facts in education and replace it with a teacher’s opinion. This is where we begin to see the creation of the arrogant egotistical elite college professors whose own, personal experiences, political beliefs, religious beliefs, and social philosophies are injected into lessons. This pragmatism is dangerous when our colleges slowly but surely become infected with socialist or Marxist ideologues.
Dewey’s concepts of the purpose of journalism are extremely important to mention. Dewey mentions extensively in “The Public and its Problems” his ideas of transforming journalism from a mechanism for reporting actions and happenings to reporting alternatives, choices, consequences, and conditions. This is critical to understand. Much like education, Dewey believed that the evolution of our society depends on the stimulating dialogue that journalism should provide. The problem is Mr. Dewey, this leads the way to perspective based on ideology instead of investigative reporting. This is where media bias comes from. Must I mention the dialectic process when the bias is socialist, Marxist, or Communist?
What I would say as I did for Darwin is Dewey’s desire for the evolution of man-kind through the knowledge of man’s opinions rather than the facts to prepare children and young adults for society was well intended but was the creation of the cog that could tear down the greatness of America when the hands of Marxists begin to turn that cog. Dewey’s ideas and social perspective lead him to be an honorable member of the National Education Association, which is now what runs our public schools. His idea of creating a social Utopia was missing one thing. It was built on tolerance to weakness and empathy for failure rather than the education from others failures to follow the simple principle of nature or of natural law. It was the faith in the capitulating principles and the rationalizations of man.
When viewing the failures of Dewey’s society, there is one principle that stands out that makes him ever so cozy with the Marxist principles. Dewey denies the existence of God. Dewey’s inability to accept God would only suggest that salvation is in the hands of man. To think that man can educate himself based on the society’s evolution can only guarantee the destruction of man. This is evident in the corrosion of morals in our current society from generation to generation. The seeking for salvation is in the heart of every man whether one wishes to deny it is irrelevant. The frustrations of the faith in man lead one to be tolerant to man’s imperfections. This perpetuates the rationalizations that will lead us to rationalize extermination of human life like it has in the arguments of abortion.
God is all perfect which leads us to see ourselves as imperfect and fallible. This realization is what separates tolerance from forgiveness with reparations. Man’s society is an imperfect one and will lead astray. A society built on the fundamentals of the natural laws of a creator allow all eyes to be focus on one goal to societal perfection rather than the fallible societal perfection of one person or a group of people. Dewey’s attempts to create Utopia leads us to the Greek meaning of that same word… “no place”.
