It’s Going to Be a Long March Back to Academic Freedom

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Commentary In the 1960s and ’70s, we witnessed the spread of increasingly radical ideologies in North America. In Canada and the United States, Marxist revolutionary visions were seldom embraced by working-class citizens. So, militant leftists shifted the idea of revolutionary “struggle” from class warfare to ethnic and racial conflict. They captured the imagination of impressionable young people by bombing buildings, kidnapping dignitaries, committing robberies, and murdering innocent people. Failing to inspire a proletarian revolution, progressive intellectuals settled on taking control of education and culture—a strategy that German Marxist Rudi Dutschke, a student activist in the 1960s, called “the long march through the institutions.”...

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