The Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, a division of The New School located in Manhattan, is truly offering a class in which students learn how to steal, reports New York Post. The title of the course is literally “How to Steal,” but instead of petty crime, the class studies radical ethics, looking for an answer to the question “is it possible to steal what was stolen?”
Field trips are planned to visit museums, banks, and grocery stores. According to the class, these are sites where students can see that “capital is hoarded and value is contested.”
The real crime may be that the class is classified as a four-credit course. This means that students will have to pay over $10,000 for only this class.
This is not unexpected as colleges are implementing more classes with left-leaning views. Once example is Princeton offering a course that studies video games use of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Zach Lochard, a senior at Southern Illinois University and affiliated with Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, says he is not surprised by this.
"I am not surprised that a college university is offering this as a class. Even the title of the class is to invoke an idea of how to get away with subpar human behavior. This is just another brick in the wall of Marxist and progressive radical ideas," says Lochard.
Lochard says the syllabus explains the course explores the "politics, ethics, and aesthetics of theft." He believes that title is just trying to mask the truth.
"Stealing is stealing. Why are we trying to teach a class validating a crime? It's absurd. We already pay – students already paid tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to get an education, not an indoctrination," Lochard states.
Lochard expects to see more of this absurd, anti-capitalist ideology permeating other college campuses.
