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How do you, as a Marxist, view academia in the west? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I am in higher level education in the public university system. I used to view academia as a source of hope in society, and perhaps a progressive institution in someways, or some kind of source of hope with their supposed focus on science and research. After some years here, this "image" I had of academia has been shattered.

What are your perceptions of academia and research institutions, as Marxists?

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[โ€“] D61@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My spouse was taking animal science classes, teachers saying things like, "The way the system works is pretty bad for the animals and the people who work with the animals... but there's nothing to be done about it."

My spouse standing there in a barn outside of the main campus thinking/saying out loud, "But here is where we're supposed to figure out what's wrong and how to do it better..."

[โ€“] happybadger@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

Day 2 of the revolution, after all of the hospital administrators are shot in the stomach and left on the ground, all of the liberal academics are going to be made to write "If education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor" 100 times in front of their class. This is the happybadger promise.