[lbo-talk] Schools and working people Re: p.s. to my last post

[Carrol Cox]

Any kind of school system will reinforce inequality. There is no way to 
isolate a school system from the lives of those who operate it and those 
who attend it. But actually, I cannot understand the reason for all this 
attention to the school system. It is vital to protect the workers and 
enter into their struggles. Chatter about what the school systems do is 
mostly just that, chatter.

Carrol

P.S. I use "working people" rather than "working class" in my subject 
line because it is becoming increasingly important to combat the notion 
that there is such a thing as a "working-class identity" or a 
"working-class" culture. Until those notions are eliminated references 
to "working-class" are almost always seriously misleading as to the 
nature of capitalism. The statement "Q is a worker" tells one nothing 
whatever about that person but only indicates his/her position in a 
complex set of social relations.