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Do these people live in a fantasy world where America is great or are they just gaslighting? (hexbear.net)

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I'm gonna go with both

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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We're in danger of producing an educated prolitariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education)

Roger Freeman, professor of economics and advisor to President Reagan

Denial of education will leave many perceiving violence as the only practical means of change.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago

The ghoul does have a point. Educating the proletariat is not a precondition for revolution, but a literate, and educated proletariat does make radicalization easier.

Hence why Russia, China, Cuba, All the successful socialist revolutions started educating people, and boosting literacy rates, as soon as they got into power.

When you grant people access to education, which has typically served as a gateway, as a way to deny social advancement; and then people don't socially advance, they start to question the rest of the system. In my opinion, this is one reason that your average 20-year-old is far more skeptical of the capitalist regime, then your average 60-year-old. One grew up in an America where was possible to advance after gaining a highly subsidized education, the other went into extreme debt for an education that gives them nothing.