I am beyond disappointed with him and his “work”. Foner’s bias is glaring to the point of my having to research who this guy is. It makes me wonder what else Foner has left out in his textbook. Ultimately dropped the course and the so called “instructor” was sloppy and only read course notes to the class. Marxist Perspectives editor Eugene D. Genovese was born in Brooklyn in 1930, did his undergraduate work at Brooklyn College, and earned a PhD from Columbia in history in 1959. The Koran is chock full of instructions & pronouncements from Mohammed about exactly when a person can seize an innocent victim as a slave and how the slave master is supposed to treat their slave. I’ll have to continue more research but at least have a place to start. College professors in general tend to lean pretty far to the left. Look at the press that publishes a book. Propoganda reaffirms the status quo, so if what you are being told rubs against what you hear in the media, then pay attention. Union leaders, in other words, have spent too much time negotiating with factory owners to get better wages and benefits for their workers, and too little time trying to overthrow America’s non-Marxist political system. It certainly has been before. When David Horowitz included a section on Foner in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, someone quickly threw together a Wikipedia page about Horowitz’ book, which portrays the whole book as a fraud and a crime, and puts a heavy emphasis on the passages about Foner. Foner is the classic example of what is wrong with higher education in America. Only a left wing screwball would say things like that. The fact that his fellow historians keep electing him to lead their professional societies shows that Marxist politics are considered more or less normal among college history faculties. Give me both sides and let me decide for myself what is true. This was the prevailing view of Reconstruction after the Civil War until the 1960’s or so. He praises the Communist Party USA for its supposed commitment to human rights, and depicts any expansion of government power as a triumph of Good over Evil. Slavery was (and is) much more prevalent in muslim countries and Africa than in the USA. He has served as president of all three major historical organizations, published a widely acclaimed book on Reconstruction as "America's unfinished revolution," and appears frequently on national television. I am all for Americans to be the most outspoken and critical of our nation’s past(or present for that matter), but an education in history should be much more objective. A textbook was recently published in Texas, claiming that Africans were brought over as migrant workers. He depicts American GI’s who fought against Communism in Vietnam as nothing but rapists and murderers. Over the next several years a healthy debate developed between those who tended to support President Bush’s anti-terror policies and those who opposed them, with large numbers of good Americans on either side of the debate; but no one anywhere near the middle ground of American politics would say that the worst thing about 9/11 is that it gave capitalists an excuse to resist Marxism. These admissions about CPUSA and Comintern more or less contradict various statements in the professor’s textbook, where he basically portrays CPUSA as a home-grown political party that had nothing to do with the Soviet Union. Under the American ideal you can literally create anything you want through hard work, sacrifice and perseverance. Foner never puts the negative events that took place in American history into global perspective or into comparison with events in other countries histories, never acknowledges that the United States dealt with and is dealing with it’s turmoils, and goes as far as to accuse the United States of spreading it’s racist influence world-wide in the Imperial Age. email me at – [email protected]. I taught thought based upon the facts. Too radical. It is very disappointing and discouraging to know that young people are being indoctrinated by revisionist historians at major universities. Eric Foner. “That is like comparing 99% of academic scientists’ conclusions (and consensus) about climate change to a denial of climate change that is put out there by money-making news conglomerates. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. “Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country’s most prominent historians.” Professor Eric Foner, The quote above is the first sentence on the homepage of Professor Eric Foner’s personal website. Dr. Foner’s ultra-left-wing political views are, perhaps, not surprising; given the way Communist leaders like Stalin were admired in the Foner household when the professor was a child. When Dr. Foner is writing for his fellow scholars, however, he shows no reluctance to own up to his Marxist sympathies. Foner concludes that “Hobsbawm’s historical writings brought to bear a sophisticated Marxist analysis that saw class conflict as a driving force of historical change but rejected narrow economic determinism and teleological frameworks. Eric Foner is known as a Marxist historian, and perhaps the furthest to the left of holders of chairs in American universities of the first rank. I’ve read Howard Zinn already, thanks. It’s telling that many of the comments here are from adults that are returning to school after an extended absence. I find my U.S. History class very biased… we have a Foner book. In the paper, the professor rather wistfully speculates that if the American Socialist Party had joined forces with the radical leftist group International Workers of the World (IWW) in the early twentieth century, the combined strength of the two might have made them a powerful force in American politics. Snapshot | Hobsbawm then became one of the world’s leading historians providing Marxist historical analysis on the nature of revolution, nationalism, identity. On October 4 of 2001, for example, Foner told the London Review of Books “I’m not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House.” He made these statements three weeks after the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, while working at a university just a few miles from the site where human remains were still being removed from the wreckage. With all due respect Mr Czarnecki, President Abraham Lincoln was not a Marxist. I have the book, and there are some other interesting statements in that chapter that aren’t on the web page linked above. The war criminal who used Japan as a laboratory for the US experiments with atomic weapons. I would highly recommend reading it. He was one of four brothers: his twin brother, Philip Foner, would later become a Marxist labor historian and political activist, while their younger brothers Henry Foner and Moe Foner would both become labor union organizers. I recently went back to school to finish my degree and have had two American History classes where Foner’s textbook Give Me Liberty, volumes 1 and 2 are used. Many people believe that historians are similar to journalists, or that anyone that writes about the past is a historian (i.e. Is the only history books without an agenda from before 1920 or can anyone recommend some more current authors? He was awarded a Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for his book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. The required text for one of my classes is “Give me Liberty”. 35, no 69 5 know him very well. Look at the evidence and then make a judgement. A Self-Made Nation tells the story of 18th and 19th century entrepreneurs who started out with nothing and created success for themselves while building a great nation. People who criticize historians and equate a “Marxist slant” with support for communism or socialism show their own ignorance of the historiography. Any examination of the historical evidence shows that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki amounted to little more than global posturing which cost hundreds of Thousands of Japanese lives. The Foner brothers were close friends with other Communist sympathizers, including singer and activist Paul Robeson and author W.E.B. A quick Google search doesn’t turn up any Foner articles about North Korea, and that’s not surprising given that the contrast between North and South Korea would obviously be so embarrassing to pro-Communist radicals like Professor Foner. For those who attempt to protect him and hold him up as an expert in this field and cite peer review, awards, authoritative positions in Associations etc…. Professor Foner is quick to express his indignation whenever anyone accuses him of having a left wing bias. Marxist historians, though often critical of monopoly capitalism, are not necessarily Marxists. heated exchange with conservative columnist Daniel Pipes, high unemployment rates of European nations. can someone suggest a better historian for a student who is going through US Hist for the first time? I would say it’s possible that he has just left out information, but I don’t think he’s stupid. His views and interpretations of historical events were unmistakably Marxist, Foner’s nephew, Eric Foner, is a leading historian and shares the family radicalism. I’m very annoyed by the fact that I had to pay $1500 to take a class that is modeled around the literal flatus Foner is spewing forth. There is little accountability in the popular media for evidence and rigor. See more of The Washington Standard on Facebook. College professors in general tend to lean pretty far to the left, and history professors even more so. In another article he complains that the last three Democrats to hold the White House were not liberal enough. Feel free to post questions here any time. The Soviet never used Even indigenous North, South, and Central American Indian tribes widely engaged in slavery – and some even engaged in cannibalism as well as human sacrifice. He also influences countless college students; not just those he instructs at Columbia, but the much larger number of collegians who get their introduction to American History from his shamelessly biased freshman textbook “Give Me Liberty.”. In another, he uses very strong language to condemn the State of Texas’ recent efforts to insert a few observations from a conservative perspective into public school history books. That was, I … In his textbook, the younger Foner depicts both Robeson and DuBois as great heroes of the civil rights movement. The same is not true for academic scholarship. Dr. Foner’s textbook is similar to the texts other leftist historians have published, in that Foner slanders anyone and anything anti-Communist while using language that sounds balanced and reasonable. Foner is Professor of History at Columbia University. Not only do historians rigorously examine evidence and go through the peer review process, but serious scholars of history understand that there is bias in everything. Your email address will not be published. In one section of the paper Dr. Foner describes Marxist political parties as victims of “outright repression.” This issue, he states, is “often stressed by historians sympathetic to American socialism.”He does not explicitly say that he is one of these historians sympathetic to Socialism, but a quick read of his history textbook will make his sympathies pretty clear. [Eric Foner, a member of The Nation's editorial board and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is the author of Give Me Liberty, an American history textbook.] The Marxist basis of the question conflicts with what is being asked; the explanations focus on the absence of social-democratic political parties, such William Dunning was a professor at Columbia University, so it WAS NOT written by a southerner who was trying to re-write history. Foner is actually a Nazi Capitalist scum. College faculties tend to be very liberal – and very defensive about it. Foner may be to the left of the American mainstream, but maybe the mainstream is wrong. In that sense his textbook has a different feel from that of his magazine articles and scholarly works, where he uses stronger language and is more candid about his biases. He also talks about how Robeson and Du Bois were family friends. Shame on this surely biased prof who simply is taking a step towards the $. Required fields are marked *. This page mention’s Philip Foner’s role as the official historian of the Communist Party USA: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1117 In critiquing yet another scholarly theory about why Socialism has not caught on in the US, Dr. Foner rather unnecessarily reassures his colleagues that “To the Marxist paradigm that underlies this vision, I have no objection.”, If that is not clear enough, Foner further reveals his leftist sympathies by condemning the United States as an “imperialist nation” and “the very focal point of world imperialism.”, Interestingly, Foner admits in this paper that in the 1930’s the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) “achieved primacy on the Left partially by virtue of its relationship with the USSR, the only existing socialist state,” and further admits that “every Communist party in the world had to deal with the Comintern.”. Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. The academic history discipline is empirical and maintains rigorous standards. Your email address will not be published. XXXIV Max Gordon and Eric Foner. What does the far left lie about? The facts dont change, only our interpretation. The same is not true for academic scholarship.”. When he got to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal is when I started to get angry. A Short History of Reconstruction Eric Foner. The far right would have you believe that slavery never even happened. The balance must be emphasized. But only if … Marxist Perspectives Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eric Foner. This half baked prof is after the $$$. The Marxist Perspectives records were retained by individual journal contributors until May 2014, when they were donated to Columbia University. Sure enough, he’s definitely a lefty. I love your question. I returned to school after many years away to prepare myself for the next chapter in my life. Thanks for your question Michael. Sure, Foner makes money selling textbooks and certainly holds “extreme” political beliefs. Jack Foner was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 1910 to Jewish parents who had immigrated from the Russian empire. He explains the Marxist ideology that would later influence socialist ideas. He goes on to say that conservatives hated Clinton because he 1) smoked weed 2) participated in anti-war demos 3) married a feminist (clearly anti-women’s rights!) Marxist "Reconstruction" Part Two by Al Benson Jr. Back in 1929 Claude Bowers wrote an excellent book called The Tragic Era. 8, from Owen: During lockdown, I've been finishing Eric Foner's "Reconstruction", a book that has only become more relevant with the mass revolt in … “tragedy” to describe the failure of early twentieth century Marxists, slanders anyone and anything anti-Communist, Is Wikipedia biased? Professor Foner’s comments about organized labor reveal his radicalism as well as anything else in this paper. You should play close attention to GP’s post Al. How can people not see that America has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system?? Yet even a quick scan of the things he writes for his fellow radicals will make it clear that his views are far to the left of the American mainstream. Browse our bookstore Dr. Foner also seems to be pretty thin-skinned. I have read a great deal on 19th and 20th century history, particularly Civil War and WWII. The failure of these two groups to merge, he writes, was “the underlying tragedy of those years.”(Italics added. Don’t judge scholarship by comparing it with popular media that has a political agenda. I read his autobiography and he promotes trickle up economics. We need you more now than ever before. Because he hates this book so much and has done his best to rewrite this specific history, this book must be a much more true version of Reconstruction. No, not AOC. That is like comparing 99% of academic scientists’ conclusions (and consensus) about climate change to a denial of climate change that is put out there by money-making news conglomerates. Foner has frequently explored teaching moments that historians can use. Journalist and author John Green interviews U.S. historian Eric Foner, for Morning Star. So what might I ask you, so wrong about being socialist, communist, or radically left, if it be anything more than of those titles? (The Communist International, or Comintern, was the department of the Soviet government that funded and controlled Communist parties in democratic nations). His purges and his isolation and elimination of Trotsky, Bukharin and others are shameful and disgusting. Foner grew up in a family of leftist radicals, and his views reflect those of his family, his friends, and his family’s friends. I was assigned the book “Give Me Liberty” for my history course this semester. Both were fired during the anti-Communist backlash that followed Joseph Stalin’s 1939 cooperation pact with Adolf Hitler. Thanks to your sight and this article, I was able to find some of his own words and opinions from his website. I took American History at Columbia College in Kansas City starting in October 2016. In describing the work of his own mentor, Dr. Richard Hofstadter, Foner says that Hofstadter and another scholar “shared Marxist backgrounds.”, On the next page Foner describes the scholarly work of “one group of historians strongly influenced by the radicalism of the 1960’s.” In describing another school of thought on the subject of why America is not yet fully Socialist, he says that this approach has “an obvious appeal for more optimistic left-historians.”. Foner boasts of having participated in the Columbia student rebellion of 1968, the first of the violent take-overs of college campuses by left wing radicals during the Vietnam War. I would like to debate this clown. Have you not read the statements from any of the top scientists — such as the former president of the American Physics Society — who have come out against the fraud and what I would call crimes against science committed by the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in England, IPCC, and various academics here in the U.S.? That is why historians go directly to the sources. Professor Eric Foner has served as president the American Historical Association and various other academic association; and is the author of the widely used freshman history textbook Give Me Liberty (which I have criticized pretty harshly in various pages of this website). Columbia University history professor Eric Foner gives background to the American Socialist movement. We examine sources before taking someone’s work at face value. That book dripped in left wing liberalism and filled with subliminal Marxism with the “What’s bad about America” leaning. He is best known for his extraordinary work on slavery in the antebellum American South and for bringing Marxist thought to bear on American social and intellectual history. Eric Foner, like most college professors, becomes indignant whenever he’s accused of having a leftist bias. He was passive aggressive and did not attack anyone or any idea directly, but instead provided quotes and viewpoints from others that did so. Your email address will not be published. In general, the British marxist historians were a solid lot. “To the Marxist paradigm that underlies this vision, I have no objection.” Eric Foner. Read articles and watch lectures by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. The 9/11 Hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. Then Foner says that conservatives were obsessed with Clinton’s sex life and includes a quote from frickin Karl Marx (first as tragedy, second as farce) in reference to the tragedy of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment and the farce that is Clinton’s impeachment. The Rosenbergs, for all their faults, may have saved millions of Russian and other lives by keeping the United States from having an Atomic Preventive War against the Soviet Union. It’s another unfortunate fact that the Marxist radicals who populate history department faculties are so fearful of contradiction that they tend to blacklist any potential colleague who does not share their left wing beliefs. Stalin was a great and terrible man. Social(ist) Distancing No. When Philip Foner later put together a collection of Robeson’s writings, he included this obscene eulogy to Stalin, apparently thinking that it was a work to be proud of. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Foner is surely one of the very few New Yorkers who had any trouble making a distinction between the Bush administration and the 9/11 hijackers three weeks after the attacks. Foner finds the failure of Socialist parties in this country inexplicable given that, as he puts it, “The Left parties of Europe have without doubt improved the conditions of life for their constituents.”. One of the best-known contemporary "Civil War" historians is Eric Foner of Columbia University, a past president of the American Historical Association and a self-described Marxist. “Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country’s most prominent historians.” Professor Eric Foner The quote above is the first sentence on the homepage of Professor Eric Foner’s personal website. Notably, I noticed that there was a lack of any information supporting the anti-communist viewpoint, which I thought was strange. Dr Foner personifies everything that is wrong with academia in America, especially where history departments are concerned, and his influence is widely felt. But he is a historian who is widely published through a peer-review process. A Georgia Tech student sued the University for failing her for passing out Republican literature on campus. Science & Society, Vol. By Eric Foner Buy this book For nearly half a century, Eric Foner has been challenging and overturning the benighted assertions made about the most studied and contentious period in US history. History is always “biased” in the sense that historians’ writings are their interpretations of evidence. Log In. Thank you for your article. Required fields are marked *. Bias always exists in the selection of facts and their presentation. Thankfully many students today are thinking for themselves & realize that Foner & his ‘Give Me Liberty’ textbook does not represent a serious discussion of our country’s history. DuBois. As Dr. Foner tells us on that same webpage, he is “one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians, and one of a handful to have won the Bancroft Prize twice and the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes in the same year.”, He obviously holds a fair amount of status among his fellow historians. His father and uncle, Professors Jack Foner and Philip Foner respectively, were both Communist sympathizers who taught at City College of New York in the 1930’s. Any accusation of left wing bias makes the typical college professor fiercely indignant; and the most biased profs usually show the most indignation. In a recent post to The Nation magazine website, the distinguished historian Eric Foner suggests that “Whatever the outcome of this election, one lesson of our history is clear: No progressive movement in this country can succeed without a significant base of support in the black community.” In fact, the Sanders campaign demonstrates the opposite. This is not the case for academic historians. The resolution held, but Governor deal would not sign the bill that vetoed far left radical dogma. Recently my professor has assigned us some of Eric Foner’s material, one being “The Idea of Free Labor” and the other being “The Republican Critique.” As I was reading I soon became suspicious of Foner’s views, sensing a lot of anti-capitalistic writing, so I decided to see where his political views resided. The climate change cult is looking an awful lot like Lysenkoism. The next time I watch an episode of the TV show MASH, where Alan Alda demonizes the American forces who fought to keep Communism out of South Korea, I’ll think about that contrast. If someone has an interpretation that you find to be offensive, you should pay attention to it and figure out why. Expose the radical left bias ! It started with the same class-envy-based justifications, utilized the same types of rhetoric (“cockroaches,” “bloodsuckers”), and ended in the same kind of mass murder. teleSUR English. He’s even engaged in public mud-slinging contests with conservative critics like David Horowitz. For further reading for those ignorant of human history, by definition, all Monarchies were systems in which the rulers had unlimited authority over the peasant classes this effective rendering them slaves (rulers could kill them and take their possessions – even their wives – at will). The donating contributors were Eric Foner, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jacques Marchand. 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