At 09:46 AM 2/24/97 -0800, ajit sinha wrote:
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>This point comes back to the issue I had raised earlier. A lack of a
>critique of the forces of production by socialist economists is no longer
>posible. In this whole debate over market versus planned socialism we are
>only concerned with what to produce and how to distribute. My point is how
>to produce is the central question for socialism now--this is what would
>determine the "freedom" or lack of it of the workers and humanity in
>general, as well as sustainability of life.
It does not come as a surprise to me in the light of the "regression to the
middle" that passes for education in American schools, colleges and
universities.
As I see it, our "educational system" is a best vaccination system against
critical thinking even invented; like antibiotics, it introduces critical
thought in small, sanitized doses to stimulate our immune system to fight
the more potent forms.
Now an examination question:
What was the last time you heard a scholarly debate on substantive issues
("courtesy" questions do not count!) at:
a) your department___________
b) a scholarly conference___________
c) a scholarly presentation____________
wojtek sokolowski
institute for policy studies
johns hopkins university
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