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‘Are they really as stupid as they seem?’
There are a surprising lack of convincing explanations as to why the capitalist class is pushing through the present unprecedented austerity drive – even at the risk of provoking both mass opposition and a double-dip recession. The following excerpts, from Hillel Ticktin’s recent articles in Critique, do offer an interesting partial explanation:
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Government cuts – ‘Are they really as stupid as they seem’ by Hillel Ticktin
University Struggles
University Struggles at the End of the Edu-Deal
By George Caffentzis
As students around the world start to take action against national governments’ university spending cuts, George Caffentzis sees a plane of struggle developing; one which acts against the crooked deal of high cost education exchanged for life-long precarity.
We should not ask for the university to be destroyed, nor for it to be preserved. We should not ask for anything. We should ask ourselves and each other to take control of these universities, collectively, so that education can begin.
– From a flyer found in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts originally written in the University of California
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