Unfortunately, not many will understand this reference.
A critical reading of Marx will not necessarily turn one into a communist. However, it was precisely this very scenario that prompted young Lucille Norton’s uncle, Charles Walgreen, to raise a ruckus that the University of Chicago was indoctrinating its students to be communists. The ensuing PR nightmare was one of UChicago’s pivotal “free speech” moments - a good reminder that this trait comes in handy when the shoe is on the other foot.
A fervent anti-Communist, Walgreen made national headlines in 1935, when, after his niece mentioned that her social science coursework at the University of Chicago included books about Soviet Russia, he demanded an investigation by the state legislature. Roiled in controversy, the school broke out in violent protests over academic freedom. The investigation concluded that “nothing in the teachings or schedule of the school can be held to be subversive”, and Walgreen apparently did not hold a grudge – two years later he gave the University half a million dollars to establish the Walgreen Foundation for Study of American Institution.
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