Showing posts with label Winston Churchill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winston Churchill. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Our Establishment, Karl Marx, and Winston Churchill

 

Every semester I give a presentation in my university titled “Materialism and our Education”. During the presentation I ask my students if they have heard of Karl Marx and almost always it is less than 5% who answer in affirmative, and out of those only one or two know about his ideas about private property and/or Das Kapital. When I ask them about Winston Churchill almost all of them know about him. At first, I was a bit confused about this bias but my confusion was eliminated when I read the English textbook for 12th class. That book contains one full chapter on Winston Churchill, in