[MD] Babylonian intellectuals

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On 24 Jul 2010 at 9:03, david buchanan wrote:

dmb says about John Dewey:
Don't you think these descriptions paint him as a dude who pushing for 
intellectual values, for freedom of speech, for anti-racism, for women's 
rights, for academic and cultural freedom and, in short, freedom of thought.

[Platt]
No. Just the opposite. From The Future of Freedom Foundation:

"Among Tugwell´s mentors was the icon of progressivism, John Dewey, famed 
educator, social philosopher, and insufferable windbag. In 1928, in a series of 
articles in The New Republic,  Dewey praised the new Soviet regime to the 
skies. It represented the "release of courage, energy, and confidence in life," 
the "liberation of a people to consciousness of themselves as a determining 
power in the shaping of their ultimate fate," "a release of human powers on 
such an unprecedented scale that it is of incalculable significance not only 
for that country, but for the world." Dewey confessed that words simply failed 
him in expressing his unbounded admiration for Soviet education and its 
democratization of the arts. In Soviet Russia, they were attempting "scientific 
regulation of social growth." "

No wonder to DMB Dewey is a hero.