[lbo-talk] the view from capital

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 10 19:37:01 PDT 2006


On Sep 10, 2006, at 9:19 PM, joanna wrote:


>> The more people who fail to complete college, the more people who
>> will blame themselves for their failure to find decent paying jobs.
>
> Maybe. Or maybe, it will occur to some that there should be no
> required link between a living wage and a college degree. Maybe it
> will occur to them that college is just a huge justification for
> inequality.

Joanna, you have a PhD, right? Do you regret having one? Do you think all those years of education made you better-equipped to cope with the world and make a living? Isn't education a lot more than a "huge justification for inequality"? Why take such a hostile, reductionist attitude?

Apropos Cde Cox's original point - what if the capitalist class's short-term greed (i.e., being too cheap to finance mass higher education) undermines their long-term interest in having a skilled workforce? Are the capitalists always right? Aren't there supposed to be contradictions in the system, even by orthodox Marxist lights? Isn't this an aspect of O'Connor's second contradiction?

Doug



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