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Well, with respect to Thomas B. and JB....it's interesting to see attacks on public education...coming from Marxists. I get enough of that from right-wing pro-privatization in my county where I live in California. I'm sure, if we look hard enough, we will see similarities, someplace, between the San Mateo School District curriculum and the 19th Century Prussian military oriented education. So...I assue that my son, while in high school, never learned logic, trig, alegebra, American history that focused on the struggles of working people, blacks and Latinos for civil rights? Hmm...I'll let him know it was all an illusion and he should of stayed home or he would of turned into a little Junker. I'm afraid that what I read from JB is 'academic' in the worst sense of the word and, hardly a guide to action about anything in education. We'll have to tell to the students at UC (and my son's community collage) that all their calls to end the budget cuts are, well, frowned on by Herr Marx. >From the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO on what communist would like see under communism: 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c. [ http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm] But I suppose we have to wait for communism and keep our kids home until then... David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
