Michelle Malkin: Hollywood and Howard Zinn’s Marxist Education Project

The Golden Rule: When Matt Damon has the gold, he makes the rules:

"The film was co-produced and bankrolled by Zinn’s Boston neighbor and mentee Matt Damon. An all-star cast of Bush-bashing liberals, including Danny Glover, Josh Brolin, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei and Eddie Vedder, will appear. Zinn’s work is a self-proclaimed 'biased account' of American history that rails against white oppressors, the free market and the military.

"Zinn’s objective is not to impart knowledge, but to instigate 'change' and nurture a political 'counterforce' (an echo of fellow radical academic and Hugo Chavez admirer Bill Ayers’ proclamation of education as the 'motor-force of revolution').

"Teachers are not supposed to teach facts in the school of Zinn. 'There is no such thing as pure fact,' Zinn asserts. Educators are not supposed to emphasize individual academic achievement. They are supposed to 'empower' student collectivism by emphasizing 'the role of working people, women, people of color and organized social movements.' School officials are not facilitators of intellectual inquiry, but leaders of 'social struggle.'"