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The '''''liberal literary bias''''' is a commonly-noted bias among the [[publishing]], [[university]], and [[literary review]] establishments.

The '''''liberal literary bias''''' is a commonly-noted bias among the [[publishing]], [[university]], and [[literary review]] establishments.

 

{{cquote|Professors don't want to teach English literature the way it was written, but instead try to deconstruct it and remold it into Marxist liberal feminist ideology. That's a hopeless task because great English literature is explicitly Christian, conservative, and celebrates heroism, marriage, and masculine courage...The professors don't want them to learn from the poem Beowulf that no civilization will survive without heroes to defend it, or from Chaucer that chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness, or from Shakespeare that there really is such a thing as human nature and some people make inherently destructive choices, or from John Milton that our intellectual freedoms are Christian in origin. The feminists don't want young people to learn from Jane Austen that it's reasonable for a woman to look to marriage for happiness. - Eagle Forum Book Review<ref>http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2006/dec06/book.html</ref>}}

{{cquote|Professors don't want to teach English literature the way it was written, but instead try to deconstruct it and remold it into Marxist liberal feminist ideology. That's a hopeless task because great English literature is explicitly Christian, conservative, and celebrates heroism, marriage, and masculine courage...The professors don't want them to learn from the poem Beowulf that no civilization will survive without heroes to defend it, or from Chaucer that chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness, or from Shakespeare that there really is such a thing as human nature and some people make inherently destructive choices, or from John Milton that our intellectual freedoms are Christian in origin. The feminists don't want young people to learn from Jane Austen that it's reasonable for a woman to look to marriage for happiness. - Eagle Forum Book Review<ref>http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2006/dec06/book.html</ref>}}

==Background==

==Background==

Former [[Communist Party USA]] General Secretary [[Earl Browder]] writing in 1960 remarked

Former [[Communist Party USA]] General Secretary [[Earl Browder]] remarked in 1960,

{{Cquote|Entering the 1930's as a small [[radical|ultra-left]] sect of some 7,000 members... rose to become a national political influence far beyond its numbers ...its influence became strong in some state organizations of the [[Democratic Party]] (even dominant in a few for some years)... its sponsors and speakers would include almost a majority of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s Cabinet, the most prominent intellectuals, judges of all grades up to State Supreme Courts, church leaders, labour leaders, etc.). Right-wing intellectuals complained that it exercised an effective veto in almost all publishing houses against their books, and it is at least certain that those right-wingers had extreme difficulty getting published.<ref>Earl Browder, ''Socialism in America'' in International Communism, St. Antony's Papers, Number 9, Edited by David Footman, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, III, 1960, p 101. [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?lang=ru&booknr=164781192]</ref>  }}

{{Cquote|Entering the 1930's as a small [[radical|ultra-left]] sect of some 7,000 members... rose to become a national political influence far beyond its numbers ...its influence became strong in some state organizations of the [[Democratic Party]] (even dominant in a few for some years)... its sponsors and speakers would include almost a majority of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s Cabinet, the most prominent intellectuals, judges of all grades up to State Supreme Courts, church leaders, labour leaders, etc.). Right-wing intellectuals complained that it exercised an effective veto in almost all publishing houses against their books, and it is at least certain that those right-wingers had extreme difficulty getting published.<ref>Earl Browder, ''Socialism in America'' in International Communism, St. Antony's Papers, Number 9, Edited by David Footman, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, III, 1960, p 101. [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?lang=ru&booknr=164781192]</ref>  }}