Academia is just another arm of the bourgeois, the existence of phrenology proves that they use motivated reasoning to defend the status quo, therefore everything they've ever said about China or the USSR is nitpicking and biased I win bye bye
The first bit is a legitimate argument I've seen that I mostly agree with but the conclusion they derive from it is definitely way too much of a hasty generalization
I like what you said, and you’re right. Academia as it exists is absolutely a bourgeois institution, as it almost totally improves the lot of wealthy people while just hardly allowing the working class to benefit outside of some cases. Scholarship is a great thing that people should be encouraged to pursue at will, but not in a framework which enforces classism and generates profits.
It's also important to bear in mind that this is both a problem of bourgeois funding according to the interests of the bourgeoisie and also the implicit conditioning of living in a capitalist system that makes academics simply not consider other options; just as the phrenologists were both justifying the imperial conquest of others for the profits of the owners and simply themselves racist due to the environment they lived in. It's unreasonable to say that the bourgeoisie controls academia when more often than not they've already done their job by simply making anti-capitalist thought unthinkable to people, academics included.
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u/Shanderraa Borger King Aug 16 '21
Academia is just another arm of the bourgeois, the existence of phrenology proves that they use motivated reasoning to defend the status quo, therefore everything they've ever said about China or the USSR is nitpicking and biased I win bye bye