Mark
----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?
> Angelus Novus wrote:
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>> Here's a relevant quote from Chomsky:
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>> See, the idea that people could be free is extremely frightening to
>> anybody with power.
>
> I think Chomsky has this exactly backwards: what is necessary for the
> capitalist class to maintain power is the widespread ideology that the
> current allocation of resources and power is the result of the free
> choices of individuals in the economic and political spheres. Those in
> power do not "fear" people being free; rather, they incessantly use the
> ideology of personal freedom to bolster their power. To put it crudely:
> "if you're poor, it's your own damn fault".
>
> Miles
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