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  • chlooooooooooooo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    rise of extremely effective propaganda and social control by western bourgeois states that would come about via the experience of the world wars. and related, the effect that universal public schooling by the state would have.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Yes, Gramsci is a key development from Marx and really essential reading as much as Lenin is.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      To extend this even further, the Information Age has brought a whole new paradigm of education and resources available to people of all ages. I think in the long term, it will work to the benefit of the Left but it'll be a couple more decades. Facts should eventually win over ideology.

      • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I have no faith in the power of education.

        Material conditions and the rate at which they change is the driver of historical events. Imho.

        • spectre [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Availability of information and education is a material condition

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      the effect that universal public schooling by the state would have

      this was coming into force in his lifetime what do you mean?

      • chlooooooooooooo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        it was 1870 when the UK made universal schooling mandatory. marx had already written much of his most famous work by then and of course could not have lived to see the full consequences of having a populace for which the vast majority of all age groups were put through state-run education, as he died in 1883.

        • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          what are the consequences he should've considered? like indoctrination or widespread literacy?