Amid Riots, Washington and Lee University Offers a Class on ‘How to Overthrow the State’

“…This fall at Washington and Lee University (removal of Lee pending), students will learn reading writing, arithmetic — and “How to Overthrow the State.” As antifa riots have continued in Portland for almost 100 nights, students at the Virginia university named after George Washington and Robert E. Lee* will study Marxist revolutions in the Global South, complete with role-playing regime change.

Writing Seminar 100-18, “How to Overthrow the State,” will award each student three credits toward graduation.

“This course places each student at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society,” a course description explains. “How will you attain power? How will you communicate with the masses? How do you plan on improving the lives of the people? How will you deal with the past?”

“From Frantz Fanon to Che Guevara to Mohandas Ghandi and others, we explore examples of revolutionary thought and action from across the Global South,” the description adds. “Students engage these texts by participating in a variety of writing exercises, such as producing a Manifesto, drafting a white paper that critically analyzes a particular issue, and writing a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory.”…”

You can’t make this up.

If you wonder how so many misguided young people wound up on the streets of Democrat cities burning, looting, rioting, screaming like crazed banshees, look no further than our education system. The left has captured the education system and has destroyed it. We no longer teach love of country and the great accomplishments of our people and state, we teach Marxist, communist, identity, racism, and other crackpot nonsense