> #HigherEducation should be related “to economic and political goals,” and if it is offered to the masses, “a program is then necessary to lower the job expectations of those who receive a college education.” .. In general, the prerogatives of the #nobility must be restored and the #peasants reduced to the apathy that becomes them.
> This is the ideology of the #LiberalWing of the #StateCapitalist ruling elite...

#NoamChomsky on 70s and 80s designs on #college #universities #academia

We really shouldn't consider the #SovietUnion and #China communist states. Just claiming a title does not mean it is an accurate one (NSDAP, anyone?) They're both what REAL communists call #StateCapitalist societies. There has never been a genuine communist state in all of modern history and I wish more people knew that.

But unfortunately #PoliticalTheory literacy is not very advanced in the States. Thanks a lot, #ColdWar #propaganda.

@Mallabori
« […/…] and the other group, who would see that there isn’t going to be an access to power that way and would therefore become the servants of private power and the #StateCapitalist #Democracy, where they would, as #Bakunin put it, ‘beat the people with the people’s stick,’ talk about #Democracy but beat the people with it.

That’s actually one of the few predictions in the #SocialSciences that’s come true, to my knowledge, and a pretty perceptive one.” »
https://www.marxist.com/noam-chomsky-marxism-authoritarianism1151004.htm