[lbo-talk] question for those who remember the 70s

Ricky Page rfpage2008 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 4 07:46:00 PDT 2010


I think ultimately this illustrates the complete victory of neo-liberalism , I remember in the early 80's when I was a student the stirring of right-wing attitudes among the instructors, concerning the low=level of intelligence of working-class st8udents= this always pissed me off, big time.

________________________________ From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sat, September 4, 2010 10:30:49 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] question for those who remember the 70s

On Sep 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:


> I may have missed it, but in catching up with this thread, I didn't see any
>reference to the explosive spread of affordable post-secondary education in the
>60s and 70s, which to my mind provided the material underpinnings of the
>so-called youth revolt of that period

I recall some right-winger at the time as saying that the massification of higher ed gave people an experience of leisure that was really inappropriate to their class position.

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