Marxism-- a self fulfilling prophecy

Is it possible for a vast majority with beliefs roooted in Marxism to essentially shape a society through a projection of their beliefs? My guess is that it is, and that it's happening right now. Many college students at 'good'/northeastern/Ivy League/liberal arts/whatever you want to call them schools who study the social sciences and the humanities are increasingly developing a belief in class warfare perpetuated by things like racism, much of which is probably taught in the classroom to a lesser extent than what their parents may think but which is promulgated across campus nonetheless by student organizations, clubs, and general opinions. Much of these beliefs have foundations in Marxism. Regardless of the intentions of these students, many of them fail to realize the foundation of their beliefs, and also fail to realize that their beliefs are based on views that predate the current age by well over a century.

A good number of these students seem to end up 'declaring war' on rich, WASPY whites (such as their parents) as they begin to hear the history of racial discrimination in the United States and how it continues today. They believe that upper class white men still control everything with an iron grip of hate, and it's up to them to free the shackled minority and let them soar. Is this really going on in America? Maybe, maybe not. Of course racism and discrimination still exist. But how much influence do they have? It's debatable. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is that when these students declare war on their parents, their parents and others in their cohort push back. And when they (and others in their demographic) push back, the students get the same class struggle (though probably more along generational lines than ever, as is perhaps evidenced by last years campaign data that I have yet to dig up) that they had supposed existed all along... talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Am I really a conservative?

Man, I sure hope not. I'm starting to see myself slip into a lot of conservative points of view, though. Probably because I try to go against whatever's 'mainstream' in my mind, and since I'm surrounded by people with objectively 'liberal' points of view, I ende up going against that...

Abortion

I saw a documentary today containing images of young women in France protesting in favor of their rights to legal abortion, or as the filmmaker put it, the "right to give birth." That phrase was a little unsettling to me, as I'd never heard it before. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the "right to give birth" is more or less a correct description-- I mean, since women have to carry the child to term , it's only fair that women have the right to give birth. This is all well and good as long as we operate on the assumption that people are just going to have sex whenever they want and not really think too hard about the consequences.

I'm starting to realize that the issue with abortion isn't about respecting a woman's right to do what she wants with her body or whatever. I think the issue is about how our culture treats sex. Yes, if people just take it as a given that they're going to have sex when they want (after a drunken night on the town, or in a more "controlled" environment with a longtime significant other), then the issue dissolves into the gender-tinged arguments everyone's too familiar with. But if we question the assumption that we have to have sex when we want, then it becomes another issue. Obviously, if abstinence worked, then we'd have a lot less problems with abortion.
Even though it doesn't, abstinence not working doesn't imply that we should assume that we should forget about telling kids not to have sex when they feel like it. Telling a teenager that he or she should make sure he or she loves someone before they have sex with them is basically like telling them they can have sex with whomever they want to, because obviously a teenager is only going to want to have sex with people that he or she thinks they like. If we as society start to take a different view of sex, i.e. one that realizes its significance and how deeply it brings individuals together, then maybe promiscuity would be a lot less common, and maybe abortion wouldn't be such a hot topic. I'm not advocating abstinence as a policy-- but I am saying we should rethink sex as an activity purely for our own enjoyment. It is intended to create children, after all.

but alas, this probably will never happen.