[lbo-talk] Graeber

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 08:49:38 PDT 2013


False dichotomy. Universities are today what religion was in pre-modern times - a symbolic, idealized representation of social relations that instills apriori ideas of those relations (Durkheim's idea.) To play that role, they cannot be just another secular place run by naked power politics, they have to maintain the aura of otherworldly purity. So university run by policemen is just as absurd as religious institution run by lowlife - it is an oxymoron. Its main function is to instill the idea of hierarchy in the impressionable young minds and it can effectively perform that function only if the hierarchy is veiled, shrouded in mystique seemingly detached from the worldly pursuits.

-- Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."



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