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FrankRep
11-30-2012, 12:17 PM
Most Americans are under the impression that Communism was invented by Marx and Lenin and first practiced in the Soviet Union. The truth, however, is quite different.


How 19th Century Communists Formed a Secret Society to Promote American Public Education (http://thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/13784-how-19th-century-communists-formed-a-secret-society-to-promote-american-public-education)


Sam Blumenfeld | The New American (http://thenewamerican.com/)
30 November 2012


Most Americans are under the impression that communism as an ideology was invented by Marx and Lenin and first practiced in the Soviet Union. The truth, however, is quite different.

Communism as an economic and political philosophy was invented by Robert Owen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen) (1771-1858), a British manufacturer, who believed that all of man's ills were caused by religion. He became a social messiah when he "discovered" what he considered to be the basic truth about human character: that a man's character is made for him by society through upbringing, education and environment and not by himself as the religionists taught. Children in a cannibal society grow up to be adult cannibals. Children in a selfish, competitive society grow up to be selfish and competitive. No one is innately depraved or evil. An infant is a glob of plastic that can be molded to have whatever character society wishes him to have.

Owen started publishing his ideas in 1813, and in 1816 to prove that he was right, he established his famous Institution for the Formation of Character at New Lanark in Scotland. Through a secular, scientific curriculum coupled with the notion that each pupil must strive to make his fellow pupils happy, Owen hoped to turn out little rational cooperative human beings, devoid of selfishness, religious superstition, and all of the other traits found in capitalist man.

In 1825, Robert Owen came to America to establish his communist colony at New Harmony, Indiana. The experiment received a great deal of newspaper publicity and attracted a large number of utopian followers. It was called "an experiment in social reform through cooperation and rational education." But in less than two years it failed. The problem, Owen decided, was that people raised and educated under the old system were incapable of adapting themselves to the communist way of life, no matter how much they professed to believe in it.

Therefore, the Owenites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owenites) decided that rational, secular education would have to precede the creation of a socialist society. They subsequently launched a propaganda campaign to promote a national system of secular education. Owen's son, Robert Dale Owen, and feminist Frances Wright set up headquarters in New York, helped organize the Workingmen's Party as a front for Owenite ideas, published a radical weekly paper called The Free Inquirer, and lectured widely on socialism and national education.

However, their anti-religious views turned so many people away from Owenism, that they were forced to adopt a covert strategy to further their ends. One of the men attracted to their cause was Orestes Brownson, a writer and editor, whose remarkable religious odyssey took him from Calvinism to Universalism to Socialism to Unitarianism and finally to Catholicism. Years later, describing his short experience with the Owenites, Brownson wrote (as documented in his article "The Convert" in The Works of Orestes A Brownson (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037NXD1U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0037NXD1U&linkCode=as2&tag=libert0f-20)):



But the more immediate work was to get our system of schools adopted. To this end it was proposed to organize the whole Union secretly, very much on the plan of the Carbonari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonari) of Europe, of whom at that time I knew nothing. The members of this secret society were to avail themselves of all the means in their power, each in his own locality, to form public opinion in favor of education by the state at the public expense, and to get such men elected to the legislatures as would be likely to favor our purposes. How far the secret organization extended, I do not know; but I do know that a considerable portion of the State of New York was organized, for I was myself one of the agents for organizing it.


Thus we know that as early as 1829, the communists and socialists had adopted subversive techniques to further their ends in the United States, techniques they would continue to use right up to the present.

Public education was the result of an unholy alliance between Owenites, who wanted public schools to promote socialism, Unitarians who wanted public schools to get rid of Calvinist influence, and Protestants who wanted public schools to counter increasing Catholic immigration. The system we now have is anti-Christian, pro-socialist, and owned lock, stock, and barrel by behavioral psychologists and secular progressives. It is a training system designed to treat children as little animals in conformity with the educators' prevailing belief in evolution.

This is clearly not an education system for a free society, and thus it must be gotten rid of. How? American parents still have the freedom to educate their children outside this corrupt government system. The faster they exercise this freedom, the better off we all shall be.


SOURCE:
http://thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/13784-how-19th-century-communists-formed-a-secret-society-to-promote-american-public-education

romacox
11-30-2012, 02:16 PM
Very Interesting article Frank Rep. It complements this article;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qiKMmrG1ZKU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCQTzBzl1A&feature=player_embedded

Notice how Eric Holder mentioned cigarettes talked about in the first video. There is a big debate happening in the United States today. This debate is not so much a discussion of conspiracies as it is a difference in ideology, and need not divide us.

The Teachings Of Gandhi, Plato And the Founding Fathers:
The Founding Fathers (and those who support the Constitution) believed man to be much more than his animal instincts because his Creator made him so. Thus education that teaches truth, individuality, analytical thinking and entrepreneurship was essential.

History showed that when any organization became too powerful (Religions in the Crusades, war lords in the Dark Ages, Hitler, Stalin, ext), they became suppressive and tyrannical. Thus the Founding Fathers sought to limit government while leaving individuals free to create unless they committed a crime (harmed another). They, like Gandhi and Plato, believed that solutions come from the people, not the government.

Plato once told his colleagues that wisdom comes from within, and it is up to the educator to bring it forth from his students. His fellow colleagues disagreed adamantly. They felt children aren't born knowing, and must have wisdom imparted to them. Plato then had a five year old child brought to him. To demonstrate his point, he told the boy nothing...he simply asked him a serious of questions until the boy solved a very complicated algebra problem.

Freud And Bernays Taught:
The students of Freud and Bernays believe that people are basically driven by animal instincts...dumb. These four basic instincts are aggression, fear, self preservation and sex. Thus they believe the Constitution is wrong because government must manipulate (Propaganda (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970312598?ie=UTF8&tag=readphonic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0970312598)) and control people "for their own good".

Education, in this way of thinking, should not teach individuality, but should teach one how to be a worker bee, part of a group making it easier to control them. Thus large class sizes and multiple choice testing makes more sense to this philosophical mentality than it does to those parents wanting their children to think as an individual "outside of the group box".

I often talk with friends who are opposed to the Constitution for this very reason. They are often the most educated in our population, and sincerely believe that a "One World Government" (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/12/boughton.htm) is the only way to obtain "world Peace", solve world hunger, and environmental issues.

In China, workers live, eat and sleep above their place of work. They also have a very high suicide rate because some find themselves unable to conform. As a tutor I often see the stress some students experience (http://www.read-phonics.com/help-child.html) as a result of large class sizes, and suppression of their natural individuality. But, in China, where the group is more important than the individual that is not a major concern as it might be to some here in the U.S.. For parents who want their child to be trained to be a worker, there should be that choice, but for parents who want their child taught individuality, and to think outside of the group there should be that choice as well. (http://ezinearticles.com/?Thinking-About-Homeschooling?-Teachers-Are&id=2499296) :-)

Note
The definition for socialization (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialization): 1. a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position. 2. the act or process of making socialistic (socialism) (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialistic): the socialization of industry.

In Early American History we were a very individualistic society, and differences in politics and religion were openly talked about. But according to Robert Hillmann, in his article The Transformation Of American Politics, (http://www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/hillmann-book2.html) one of the progressive's goals was to divide us. They began replacing that American individualism and analytical thinking with a group mentality in which people would identify with particular groups (Republican verses Democrat verses Libertarians, Conservatives verses Liberals, black verses white, one religion verses another, ext). Many Americans have now become so divided that they will not talk to anyone who might disagree with them on religion or politics...to the point of ostracizing such individualism. The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto (http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html)confirms much of what that article talks about, and show that many of the Communist goals have now been achieved in The U.S

Conclusion
Today the biggest influx into the home school venue are teachers, "and one of the reasons" they give is: Class sizes have become so large that kids are taught to act like robots rather than individuals. (http://ezinearticles.com/?Thinking-About-Homeschooling?-Teachers-Are&id=2499296)Teachers find themselves having to teach as if a one size fits all...they are less able to individualize their curriculum.

There is truth in what Gandhi, the Founding Fathers, and Plato saw, and there is truth in what Freud and Bernays say. Man does have both sides. The problem with the progressive ideology is that the oligarchy themselves are people, and the animal instincts come out sometimes in them as well. So who are these so called "smarter people" who should rule the masses? The Heritage Foundation has an amazing article that explains who they are: How The Progressive Movement Transformed American Politics.. (http://www.read-phonics.com/progressive.html.pdf)

The Founding Fathers knew that man had a dark side as well as "a Divine connection to his creator". That is why they created the judicial system, which has now become too powerful. You see the Constitution was the great unifier. To Learn and teach the Constitution, we have six videos with Judge Napolitano,a Constitutional Attorney, explaining the Constitution. (http://www.read-phonics.com/us-constitution.html)