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Professor Rejects Marxism After Traveling The Globe: 'Socialism Doesn't Work'

• Prison Planet.com

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder says his political and ideological conversion away from socialism and Marxism occurred when he actually witnessed these systems in action.

After traveling to more than 110 countries to pursue various forms of research, notably cultural anthropology, Stauder described his conversion from Marxism as a process of disillusionment.

"I gradually became disenchanted with Marxism by visiting many of the countries that had tried to shape their societies to conform to its doctrines. I was disillusioned by the realities I saw in … socialist countries – the USSR, Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, etc," Stauder told The College Fix via email.

"I came to recognize that socialism doesn't work, and that its 'revolutionary' imposition inevitably leads to cruelty, injustice and the loss of freedom," the professor continued.

"I could see the same pattern in the many failed left-wing revolutions of Latin America and elsewhere. By combining actual travel with the historical study of socialism and revolution, I succeeded in disabusing myself of the utopian notions that fatally attract people to leftist ideas."


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