The Harvard complex

The political landscape among professors in U.S. universities is notably leaning towards the left, with around 60% of the faculties identified as “liberal” or “far left”. While not all these faculties are intentionally communists or communist sympathisers, critical thought and conservatism are significantly diminished in U.S. universities. It has created a fertile ground for the university faculty to align with socialism, communism, and anarchism, as united by their common negative attitudes towards capitalism, neoliberalism, and conservatism.

This transition, which involves the systematic inculcation of a particular set of beliefs or ideas, often at the expense of critical thinking and academic freedom, has led to a stifling of diverse perspectives and a homogenisation of thought at Harvard. This homogenisation, which can be described in Chinese communist terminology as “the unity of thoughts”, suppresses dissent and promotes a singular, party-approved narrative. In the context of Harvard, this creates a monolithic intellectual environment that contradicts the principles of intellectual diversity, academic freedom, and open debate.

Elite educational institutions in the United States, notably Harvard, have gradually abandoned their traditional commitment to fostering new and challenging ideas and visions for the future; instead, they serve as platforms for dictators and their ideologies. Rather than prioritising intellectual excellence, offering moral leadership, and pursuing knowledge through critical thought, they promote ideological indoctrination.

Consider a university as society’s brain and an elite university as its central part. This brain is now compromised and poses a clear and present danger to U.S. society, as the proverb says: “A fish rots from the head down.”

Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist philosopher, outlined the foundation for the takeover of capitalism through economic means and by dominating cultural institutions, including schools, universities, churches, and the media. Gramsci argued that establishing socialism and overthrowing capitalism requires infiltration and transformation of these institutions from within, gradually changing and ultimately taking control of the cultural and ideological foundation of society.

Now, recall Tocqueville’s prophetic warnings for America, particularly in the context of Harvard. The crux of this warning is that democracy can be its enemy from within, and it can be rotten at its high echelons, from the peaks of political authority, intellectual elitism, and moral standards.

The damage inflicted by Harvard and numerous other elite institutions in the United States is not short-term but generational. It has facilitated the infiltration of hostile and anti-democratic ideologies and indoctrinating students, the future leaders of this nation, to gradually transform society to create, as Gramsci envisioned, forces of “a counter-hegemony that would challenge and eventually replace the existing capitalist hegemony.”

At its core, the entire process is so incremental and insidious that it is almost impossible to discern where all these changes, deviations, and betrayals lead unless one sees the big picture through persistent patterns. As Harvard continues to exhibit a consistent pattern of strengthening enemies of democracy, it increasingly becomes a nexus of anti-democratic forces risking the future of American democracy. America must be afraid of itself, of its once trusted institutions grooming their impressionable and impetuous youth to become useful tools for “counter-hegemony.”