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"John Dewey...visited the communist regime in 1928 December wrote in the _New Republic_ that «in the ⋘transitional⋙ state of Russia (of course, communist regimes are always in ⋘transitional states⋙) chief significance attaches to the mental and moral (pace the Marxians) change that is taking place; that while in the end this transformation is supposed to be a means to economic and political change, for the present it is the other way around. The consideration is equivalent to saying that the import of all institutions is educational in the broad sense -- that of their effects upon disposition and attitude. Their function is to create habits so that persons will act co-operatively and collectively as readily as now in capitalistic countries they act ⋘individualistically⋙.» So, here is one of the founding fathers of USA's [regressive] movement, who had lectured about «science and reason», praising the forced brain-washing of the Russian population by the brutal regime of communist dictator Joseph Stalin. And keep in mind, Dewey remains central to [regressive] thought in academia, the media, and elsewhere.
Dewey continued: «The same consideration defines the importance and the purpose of the narrower education agencies, the schools. They represent a direct and concentrated effort to obtain the effect which other institutions develop in a diffused and roundabout manner. The schools are, in current phase, the ⋘ideological arm of the Revolution⋙. In consequence, the activities of the schools dove-tail in the most extraordinary way, both in administration and ⋘organization⋙ and in aim and spirit, into all other ⋘social⋙ agencies and interests.»." --- Mark Reed Levin, J.D. 2021-07-13 _American Marxism_ pp53-54
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