The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has a seminar coming up to encourage professors to host their own classes on communism to make sure that the "destructive" ideology, as one professor put it, is not "easily forgotten."
It is ironic as many college professors are left leaning.
For example, Joseph Buttigieg, former professor at the University of Notre Dame and the father of politician Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary of Transportation, was a student of Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci. He was involved as the editor and translator of “Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks” and was founder and president the International Gramsci Society.
The seminar, “Teaching the twentieth Century: Communism and Dissent,” is being held by the School Civic Leadership at the UT Austin in partnership with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Associate professor Alexander Duff will host the event, which takes place on October 16 through the 18.
Matt Lamb, Associate Editor of the The College Fix, speaks about this benefit of this seminar.
"I mean this generation, even millennials, are some ways removed from the harms of communism, if we consider that ended in the late 80s or early 90s," Lamb states.
Lamb thinks this will help deal with the problem of many people being removed in this day and age.
"I mean, today we see – and this is mentioned in the article, but the rise of critical theory, critical race theory, which is explicitly Marxist, the groups like Black Lives Matter, which is a Marxist organization – that people don't remember the harms of communism and Marxism, and so, we need to teach it to students,” concluded Lamb.
