question for college educated people older than 25: if you had it to do over again, and you could go back to school and pursue a career in academia, what field or fields would you go into to have the greatest positive impact (from a Marxist’s point of view), which field would you choose? assuming you can start from the very beginning, i.e., get a new bachelors before moving into a masters and a phd

question for the zoomers: if you could study anything at university without having to worry about whether or not you could make a decent living afterwards, with a view to making the world less shit, what would you study and why?

long story short, my parents have come into some money and i may have this opportunity and i want to choose my field of study wisely. when i went to college at 18 i double majored in french (good choice bc i love languages and the humanities in general, and it expanded my worldview outside of amerikkka) and business (bad choice bc lmao) and i don’t want to make the same mistake again. currently i’m thinking history because a) i’ve always loved history, from literally as long as i can remember and b) history is a weapon and i want to use it to behead the capitalists. im also interested in international relations, but only from a based point of view

note that if i do go back to school, it will be somewhere in europe, bc fuck paying for a university education in america lol worst mistake of my life

basically what i’m saying is, from the ivory tower of academia i will rain hellfire on the upper class until they are utterly destroyed, or i will die trying. tell me what to study in order to accomplish this

Death to America

  • SkeletorJesus [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    If you feel like making yourself go literally insane and actively hostile to most of the people around you, you could go for a law track. Something relevant for undergrad (it doesn't matter that much AFAIK, history's a fun one that works.) and then on to law school. Good lawyers working for good causes can actually do a relatively high amount of good at the individual level. From union lawyer to tenants' rights, there's a lot of places that you can make a direct, visible difference in people's lives. That's a super hard road to walk down, though. It's a frustrating and monotonous profession composed mostly of reading the driest documents in human history, the pay is rarely good if it's something worth doing, a huge proportion of the people you'll be going to school with will give you a full-body feeling of visceral disgust, and it requires diligently working within the confines of a system that I'm going to assume you know is a wretched abomination.