[lbo-talk] the menace of the feeble minded (Re: corporate rationality

[Mike Beggs]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:30 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
>> what's specifically capitalist is that racialization justifies where you
>> land in the social structure.  there's no need to make justification
>> pre-capitalism.
>
> It strikes me that the 'meritocratic' sorting of the education system
> has come to supplement and potentially replace it in that function.

Although... of course the education system is pretty racialised itself.