I feel rather bad for what I am about to do.
I’m going to seriously disagree with someone with whom I
probably share many beliefs.
It rather reminds me of the time I stopped by a GAP
demonstration, and then got attacked by one of the Pro-lifers.
Anyway, one Dr. Jeff Mirus recently published an article attacking English
departments for their Marxism and relativism. The column was forwarded to me by
one of the CSC’s FOCUS members and by my mom, independently.
Below contains excerpts from the column with my mostly nonsensical
responses. I wrote it very late at night, so expect a revised version to appear shortly after Isabel and Therese have pointed out all the unintelligible nonsequiturs to me.
And so it begins...
Nonetheless, it is not without reason that English departments have been
described as the last bastion of Marxism.
This I can attest to from personal experience. Marxism
and its brood are, indeed, rampant in English Departments. I would also agree
with Dr. Mirus if he were to argue that English professors abuse Marxism by
indoctrinating it in their students. However, I personally do not think that
Marxism is an entirely useless tool in literary studies. Far from being the One
Ring that will plunge its wielder into ideological fires of Mount Doom, Marxism
functions well as a literary mode of interpretation because the imaginary space
of literature functions precisely like the kind of universe that Marxism describes.
Consider Pope Benedict’s own concerns regarding Marxism. In his analysis of the
Genesis story, In the Beginning, he warns that the primary flaw of
Marxism is that its socialist ideology suggests that all intellectual phenomena
are the products of man. Thus, Marxism dismantles belief in revelation and
asserts that any religious system and any truths it preaches must be human
invention. In other words, we live in a man-made world, and any attempt to say
that God made the world is simply a story we tell ourselves to forget that
reality. Pay no mind to the man behind the curtain.
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