Further on Johan Soderberg:
I think the student loans have a pernicious effect that may be implied
in what Johan writes but I want to make explicit. The loans make the
borrower as desperate for growth in the economy as are the capitalists.
Further on Chris Burford:
He mentions a "charitable scheme" at Harvard. What looks like charity
-- i. e. lower prices for some students -- is simply price
discrimination required by the cost structure of a university.
Universities extract the maximum each student is willing to pay -- very
high tuition for some, to get all their money, then fill the seats with
discounted prices. And "all their money" includes requiring the
customer to max out on the student loans.
Gene Coyle
johan soderberg wrote:
When will the vast armies of
the working intelligentsia see the bigger picture on
a world scale?
Having recently left the academic sanctum - with
astronomic debts and tiny prospects of finding work, I
have some thoughts on the subject.
Tutition fees and student debt is necessary. Not to
pay for education, but to keep the pecunary mindset in
place in an expanding population that - for most of
their lifes - are redundent to production and
labourmarket relations. Student revolts in the 60's
was possible thanks to stundents not beeing mindlocked
by debt and insecurity in future employment. Had the
financial security remained with todays increase om
proportion of students, social stability would have
been in trouble. Instead students are disciplined by
fear of indebted unemployment and promises of entering
the middle class. When those hopes are finally
frustrated, things will start to happen. From what I
know, radicals in muslim third world countries (where
the false promises have been proved wrong much
quicker) are often disappointed and redundant
ex-students. Question is, how can frustration be
channeled into a positive force against capitalism,
and not destructively into fascism or religious
fanatism?
/Johan
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