[lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It?

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sun Nov 22 02:51:11 PST 2009


On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:27:41 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
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> On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:23 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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> > More people getting more formal education does not solve the
> > problem; if Obama had his fondest wish granted and all U. S.
> adults
> > earned a college degree, we'd just have lots of low-paid janitors,
>
> > security guards, and restaurant workers with college degrees.
>
> And maybe a lot more pissed-off people? Isn't that part of what
> brought down the Soviet Union and its EE clones?

Wasn't it a deliberate policy in the Soviet bloc to produce a surplus of people with university degrees so they wouldn't have to pay them that they were paying skilled blue collar workers?

Jim F.


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