If that’s the case, Nickel and Dimed could be her dream journal.Īccording to an interview of Ehrenreich in the August 5, 2001, edition of SocialistWorker Online, “Ehrenreich researched her book by taking a series of low-wagejobs.” Eherenreich’s interview with the newspaper of the InternationalSocialist Organization, a group that believes that capitalism produces poverty,racism, famine, environmental catastrophe and war, is just another indicationof her communist ideological bias. Her theoreticalMarxism is mentioned in the text itself she mentions reading Mao before goingto sleep. Ehrenreich’sbona fides in the field of Marxism are evinced throughout her illustrious careeras possibly the most respected female “intellectual” in modern academia.When not writing for Harper’s, Time, The Nation and NewYork Time Magazine,she is the Vice-Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.

(Does he really expect students to thumbthrough The Iliad on the beach during Spring Break in Miami?)Įhrenreich’s book, which is purportedly about the plight of the workingpoor, is replete with references to race, class, religion, and Communism. The Chronicle quoted him as saying, 'I don't like the disparagingremarks made about Jesus.” Those references are of the liberation theologymodel to Ehrenreich, Jesus is a Marxist revolutionary.Īllran said the university’s reading list should come from the classics.Bresciani explained that the university does not assign classics because studentsare expected to read those on their own. One critic of Ehrenreich’s book is North Carolina State Senator AustinAllran. Bresciani said, 'it would bea relatively tame selection.' However, the move is being criticized by somelegislators in North Carolina, who (rightly) describe her work as liberal propagandainfused with religious bigotry. Ironically, UNC administratorsthought, as interim Vice Chancellor Dean L. Once again UNC has selected a controversial book for its incoming freshman toread, according to a report in the Jedition of the Chronicle ofHigher Education (CHE): The book is Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting ByinAmerica, penned by radical leftist Barbara Ehrenreich.

The University of North Carolina has a peculiar take on which works comprisethe canon of “great books.” Last year, UNC’s incoming freshmenhad to read Approaching the Qur'án: The Early Revelations, a portraitof Islam so unquestioning that many believed it constituted indoctrination intothe religion. Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Diming Truth

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