Classes have started, and I'm sure someone here has some Poli Sci or economics course besides me. Soon class room discussions will start.
I just wanted to hear your input on the best way to fight statism in the classroom and some guidelines on taking down amateur arguments.
Freedom has always been the only route to progress.
As someone else here mentioned before when I posed a similar question, debate with them as little as possible. Do not get hung up on debunking every minor detail of their argument; if there is one central fallacy upon with their entire position is based, destroy that fallacy, and their argument comes crumbling down.
Yeah, Aikido: Assuming they're leftists (the usual) go with it; agree; find common ground - yes, the right is evil because they try take away freedom and they instill crony capitalistic mercantilism. So the only way to combat them is to eliminate government power.
I have a "econ" class- but its an Introduction to Financial accounting (actual name), so I can't really do much, and although the teacher is a local Republican, County Commissioner, that really plays no role in whether or not buying $10k worth of office equipment, $2k of which is in cash and the rest on account means that you add $10k to the office equipment list, subtract $2k from cash, and put an additional $8k in accounts payable.
So far I got an intro to poli sci class, where I can tell the instructor is a liberal of some kind (the first thing he talked about was walmart and sweatshops), though he did talk about a reduction in government spending.
Thankfully my higher level poli sci class has a book by Thomas Sowell, probably means the professor is just a conservative.
Frankly I like challenging my professors more then my fellow classmates.
Libertyandlife: Why would your professor be a conservative, just because a book by Sowell is on the reading list? I have to read A Communist Manifesto, Utopia, The Republic and Leviathan for one course, doens't mean my proffesor
is a marxian utopist.
Because the second book is on the welfare state, and I've heard he is.