JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952) AKA "JOHNNY SOCIALISM-SEED"
John Dewey (1859-1952) was a totalitarian socialist
who wanted government to take over all education via government schools.
He praised Edward Bellamy as his “Great American Prophet” after Bellamy wrote
the book “Looking Backward” wherein Bellamy penned his totalitarian vision.
Edward Bellamy was the cousin of Francis Bellamy, another national socialist
in the U.S. who, in 1892 created the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag (originating a straight-armed salute http://rexcurry.net/pledge1.html)
to promote government schools. They all wanted the government to take over
all schools and create an “industrial army” of totalitarian socialism as
described in “Looking Backward” (a bestseller written in 1887 http://rexcurry.net/pledgebackward.html). Government-schools spread and they mandated racism and segregation by law and did so through WWII and beyond (http://rexcurry.net/stopthepledge4.html).
Dewey was “Johnny Socialism-Seed” as he planted the ideas of the Bellamy boys at home and abroad.
Dewey was fascinated by the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics and between 1920 and 1928 wrote many articles praising the “new”
educational system imposed by the totalitarian socialists. At the invitation
of the Commissar of Education in 1928, Dewey traveled to the fledgling police
state. None of the socialist “utopia” espoused in 1917 had developed.
Their educational ideal of “collective liberation” was in tatters. The individual
(student)-collective (society) creed of Dewey’s socialist education appealed
to the Soviet socialists. Dewey studied their educational system, prepared
educational surveys, and wrote several articles and a book on the topic.
After the First World War, Dewey also studied education
in China and lectured there from 1919 to 1921. The Chinese literary
reformer Hu Shih (1891-1962), completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Columbia
University under John Dewey in 1917. He was greatly influenced by Dewey
and became a lifelong advocate of Dewey’s ideas.
Dewey and his “new” educational system expanded government-schools and totalitarian socialism everywhere.
The socialist Wholecaust followed shortly after the worldwide
impact of Bellamy’s totalitarian ideas. While the Holocaust was monstrous,
it was part of the bigger Wholecaust. Under the industrial army of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics, 62 million people were slaughtered;
the People's Republic of China, 35 million; and the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party, 21 million (numbers from Professor R. J. Rummel's article
in the Encyclopedia of Genocide (1999)). http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
Dewey was also interested in the socialist economic experiments
in the Union of the Soviet Socialists Republics. He imported their
cockamamy ideas, after exporting his own.
Dewey’s ideas have also been criticized for their neglect of the basic skills of literacy and numeracy.
It is a tragedy that he is considered a "great philosopher"
in the U.S. He was probably also considered a "great philosopher" by
the totalitarian socialists in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and the Peoples' Republic of China.