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Seth Cotlar
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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com/
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In 1935, drug store magnate Charles Walgreen, testified that he had to withdraw his niece from the University of Chicago because she was being indoctrinated into a life of free love and Communism by her professors there. The evidence for the claims seemed...well...a little weak.

Alexis.
WALGREEN IN TESTIMONY ON HIS CHARGES
CHICAGO, May 13
-(AP) Charles
R. Walgreen, drug store magnate, today charged before a state senate committee that a University of Chicago professor advocated free love and that Walgreen's niece, 18-year-old Lucille Norton, of Seattle, Wash., was indoctrinated with communist teachings at the uni-versity.*
Appearing before five senators who are investigating the university ag the first of Illinois colleges to determine whether the students ot the state are being influenced by communist propaganda, Walgreen said of his niece:
"I know that neither her earlier education nor training nor her out-aide contacts could have iiven her those (alleged communist) views.
It was the character of the instruction and I infer that she was indoctrinated at the university,
"I am sure that the method subtle and insidious."
Walgreen caused a sensation recently when he withdrew his niece from the university, where she was a freshman, stating that the time she was "
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RMrob-in-newmexico.bsky.social

Proof of Communism? The University of Chicago dropped football in 1939. It took longer in those days for orders to travel from the Kremlin to America. Today they just text Tim Pool. S/

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LMkirkmurphy.bsky.social

And the problem would be…?

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AManamariecox.bsky.social

One of a handful of times I’ve been proud of my alma mater’s politics.

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Iblagueplague.bsky.social

well, now I want to know about the history of "free love" as a concept

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KCkatiecannon.bsky.social

Capitalism: Banks and corporations rely on government created dollars to stay solvent Marxism: No state per se. No banks & corporations. No markets. No money. No prices. Lenin: State “communism” is state capitalism lol.

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PIvulgareconomics.bsky.social

Okay but Schumann was actually a communist en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...

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Ppeter-donnelly.bsky.social

his niece? didn't she have parents of her own?

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CGcharlottegarden.bsky.social

I mean, I’d raise an eyebrow at a colleague who told a class of first years that he believed in free love

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HTjoulesbyrne.bsky.social

"They decided they had a mind of their own. Must be the Reds" instance #18,259,393

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SCsethcotlar.bsky.social

We have always been at war with RadicalLeftCommunistProfessors who are InodoctrinatingOurChildrenWithSexCommunism.

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Seth Cotlar
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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com/
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