I credit Marxist teachings in HS and college to my appreciation of capitalism

Nov 26, 2021
7:52:03pm

jrifkin48 Troublemaker

Makes us better critical thinkers with capitalism backgrounds, but Marxist teachings. Kids who grow up with Marxist background (parents, TV) miss the opportunity to learn the other side and thus have zero critical thinking skills. Their loss.

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At Thanksgiving dinner, my lil bro brought up this fun fact about U of U.

Mostlyaccurate

11/26/21 7:24pm

Completely unsurprising. Same reason there are more tattoos per capita in Utah

Iman23

11/26/21 7:26pm

What do tattoos have to do with Marxism?

ColonelMustard

11/26/21 9:26pm

The need to differentiate oneself.

shamc

11/26/21 9:46pm

I hadn't considered that before. If you want to be an econ major, do you need

Mister P

11/26/21 7:28pm

Idk, I guess you just choose a school you align with or if you don't care then

Mostlyaccurate

11/26/21 7:33pm

If you do Econ in Utah, BYU is the best option. Then I’d say USU.

TerpCoug

11/26/21 7:35pm

USU ranks higher.

Oatmeal

11/26/21 8:28pm

Lol, USU isn’t 3rd in anything. That site is wack

WP17

11/26/21 8:35pm

Business Econ isn’t Econ. And for undergrad, BYU has en elite program.

TerpCoug

11/26/21 9:18pm

NYU grad after BYU Econ here

NYC and Japan

11/26/21 9:41pm

Ok let me be more precise: business Econ and Econ may not focus on the same

TerpCoug

11/26/21 10:00pm

I am confused what this has to do with anything

WP17

11/27/21 9:19am

Just agreeing with the comment in the body of the text that BYU Econ is good for

NYC and Japan

11/27/21 1:01pm

Okay, that makes sense. Then the response to you just doesn’t make sense

WP17

11/27/21 1:09pm

I credit Marxist teachings in HS and college to my appreciation of capitalism

jrifkin48

11/26/21 7:52pm

You can tell from the course desc whether you're getting quant or philosophy

BYU'01

11/26/21 9:09pm

I have coworkers who studied at Utah in Econ. I always call them Comrade.

TerpCoug

11/26/21 7:34pm

Isn't a lot of Marxists economic view demonstrabley false? I mean are they still

shamc

11/26/21 7:38pm

It just hasn’t been implemented correctly…or something.

Jstak17

11/26/21 7:40pm

Communism

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 6:52pm

This is true

DazeofBlue

11/26/21 7:36pm

Wish we never donated that school to them

Dr MoBYU

11/26/21 7:41pm

Figures

Lifi

11/26/21 7:41pm

They have a Cry Closet, drop trou in their own concourse, and think Majerus was

Abe Froman

11/26/21 8:03pm

I majored in Econ at West Point and my professors made fun of them for this reason.

WP17

11/26/21 8:26pm

Can confirm

dixieutahbyuzag

11/26/21 8:27pm

Sounds about right. No one who knows Econ does a masters before PhD.

WP17

11/26/21 8:30pm

I can confirm this. My buddy got his econ Masters from the U and bought in

Big McLargeHuge

11/26/21 8:35pm

So they teach a system of Econ that has proven ineffective time and time again?

D.T. Survivor

11/26/21 8:46pm

Also, the U’s Econ program skips the calculus part of Econ. Anyone who has an

tyrwhite

11/26/21 8:59pm

Econ is more Linear Algebra (the Matrix/ matrices) than calculus.

NYC and Japan

11/26/21 9:47pm

Why would they need to train economists if they're just going to turn it over to

BYUBandfan

11/26/21 9:48pm

I'm a product of the U's Econ Dept, 2005 to 2007.

Cachanilla83

11/26/21 9:48pm

Today, leftist is Marxist, no?

CougsWin16

11/26/21 9:58pm

With Bernie’s popularity, it seems to be heading that way.

Breaded Hamster

11/26/21 10:04pm

I am a liberal - and far from Marxist - so absolutely NO.

Cswilliam01

11/27/21 6:44am

No. 'Marxist' doesn't actually mean anything. It's a term for leftist boogeymen

Hotlanta

11/27/21 6:57am

Bernie has said many times that he is a socialist

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 8:47am

RE: Bernie has said many times that he is a socialist

Hotlanta

11/27/21 9:07am

RE: Bernie has said many times that he is a socialist

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 9:16am

You must be really young to have such conviction that you know so much, in particular what everyone should think and

No touching

11/27/21 9:33am

People shouldn't be racist. What, do you want me to be sorry about that?

Hotlanta

11/27/21 1:12pm

Anyone who is ok with Racism Is not right in the head… but what the media and

Pretorian

11/27/21 5:43pm

Hotlanta - check your capitalization

NYC and Japan

11/27/21 1:11pm

Cough cough, virtuesignaling.

shamc

11/27/21 1:32pm

Probably worded that poorly

NYC and Japan

11/27/21 2:15pm

You’d think a leftist would know how to use pronouns properly 🙂

D.T. Survivor

11/27/21 6:54pm

Honest question…

Pretorian

11/26/21 10:20pm

Marxist. Leftists. Potato. Potatoe.

UNLVcougar

11/26/21 11:58pm

Chihuaha. Orca. Both mammals.

vagabonder

11/27/21 7:47am

Utah has a mostly deserved reputation for being amongst the most marxist dept.

YSMACK

11/27/21 12:01am

Cheap shot - many liberal theories are far from Marxism.

Cswilliam01

11/26/21 10:47pm

The post was about how other Econ Dept’s view the school

BYU '80

11/26/21 10:51pm

The post was anecdotal - the well poisoning politics that does not infect

Cswilliam01

11/27/21 6:36am

To be fair, your post was less than anecdotal.

DirtyWater

11/27/21 6:53am

Yeah. My profs at West Point knew about the U’s “heterodox” Econ dept so it’s not some random anecdote.

WP17

11/27/21 6:46am

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cvd6262

11/27/21 8:57am

understood, and yes- the phrasing I use here is referring specifically to heterodox economic teaching

WP17

11/27/21 9:00am

^^^graduated from Utahs Econ program and couldn’t get accepted anywhere for a

UNLVcougar

11/26/21 11:59pm

You criticized using labels by using more labels

BYU'01

11/27/21 8:50am

Lack of transparency is the higgestnn by problem woth healthcare. Thankfully

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