Maggie's Farm

This is the Gramsci legacy. Gramsci was the founder of the Italian Communist Party. He believed the capitalist ruling class maintained its hegemony by instilling its own norms and cultural values into society at large. Capitalist values became everyone's values so the status quo was maintained.

The capitalist hegemony is replaced by changing the narrative. This is accomplished by "going into the institutions", the media, the church, the film industry, the military, and the family. Gramsci would be pleased to learn how successfully his vision has been realized.

I live in California. The University of California system recently reported that its non-teaching administrative staff had increased by 212% since the early 1990s, which the teaching staff had gone up only a few percent. This is to accommodate diversity specialists, LGBT specialists, divesture specialists, green energy specialists, and so on. Plus, these positions are lucrative sinecures for liberal arts majors who can feel good about themselves and not have to work too hard, with a great pension at the end. Victor Davis Hanson has written a lot about this.

So who runs the universities? I don't know that it matters much. Both the faculty and administration seem to be commies these days. Conservatives are simply not hired for these positions.

Lenin said something to the effect that if he could control the education process for four years, he would have their minds for ever.

There's a huge sea change going on right now. Obama is confident enough to stand in in public and say he's a muslim socialist. He was half joking, but what other American president ever said anything like that?

Ooops– I meant of course to include EDUCATION in the list of institutions targeted by the left.