Academics, at least if they aren't precariously employed (which is a rather recent development), tend to be public servants. Those are usually counted as petite bourgeoisie because they serve the state, not capital (at least not directly) and also tend to have pretty good conditions of employment. And even if academics nowadays have no chance of getting a permanent position, the traditional Marxist position is that universities are bourgeois institutions that transmit petit bourgeois ideology at best.
How is academic petit-bourgesie? They work for a wage, don't they?
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Academics, at least if they aren't precariously employed (which is a rather recent development), tend to be public servants. Those are usually counted as petite bourgeoisie because they serve the state, not capital (at least not directly) and also tend to have pretty good conditions of employment. And even if academics nowadays have no chance of getting a permanent position, the traditional Marxist position is that universities are bourgeois institutions that transmit petit bourgeois ideology at best.
do you/ does anyone happen to have any articles looking at the status of academics through a marxist lens?