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0 pointskomali22y ago0 comments

> There’s definitely a Marxist undertone to the whole thing

Because it argues for meritocratic rewards in society? Because it pointed out that capital is a gatekeeper? What makes it seem "Marxist" to you?

> Why not build more “Ivy+” and attempt to lift others up rather than flip the table?

I think the argument against subsidizing anti-meritocratic institutions such as Harvard is exactly this. The money is better spent on lifting up people regardless of their ability to get into Harvard.

I find the ending ambiguous, less "Harvard should be burned to the ground" and more "Harvard shouldn't get subsidies."

I think Harvard would survive just fine without subsidies. It's Harvard.

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thebooktocome2y ago

It’s the same folk-interpretation of Marxism that always goes around. Now that Marxism is dead and can’t defend itself, it’s whatever anyone wants it to be.

States that were far closer to Marxism, like the PRC during the Cultural Revolution, decimated their universities and dispersed their faculties over the countryside, or to labor camps.

This article is not on the same planet as that madness.

komali2OP2y ago

Now I'm seriously confused - a major criticism, by communists, of the Cultural Revolution was the blow back against all intellectuals and the destruction of the education system in the PRC. In what was was that Marxist? I mean, I know the arguments the red guard made, but there were other Marxists that disagreed. Are you just saying the red guard interpretation was the correct one?

thebooktocome2y ago

I’m saying that on the continuum of Marxism, the PRC circa 1965 is somewhere to the middle-far-left and the article above (that OP claimed was Marxist) is all the way on the far right.

I’m not super interested in whether or not their Marxism was “authentic”, and neither is anyone who goes around, as OP did, randomly labeling things they don’t like as Marxist.

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0 pointskomali22y ago0 comments

> There’s definitely a Marxist undertone to the whole thing

Because it argues for meritocratic rewards in society? Because it pointed out that capital is a gatekeeper? What makes it seem "Marxist" to you?

> Why not build more “Ivy+” and attempt to lift others up rather than flip the table?

I find the ending ambiguous, less "Harvard should be burned to the ground" and more "Harvard shouldn't get subsidies."

I think Harvard would survive just fine without subsidies. It's Harvard.

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thebooktocome2y ago

It’s the same folk-interpretation of Marxism that always goes around. Now that Marxism is dead and can’t defend itself, it’s whatever anyone wants it to be.

States that were far closer to Marxism, like the PRC during the Cultural Revolution, decimated their universities and dispersed their faculties over the countryside, or to labor camps.

This article is not on the same planet as that madness.

komali2OP2y ago

thebooktocome2y ago

I’m saying that on the continuum of Marxism, the PRC circa 1965 is somewhere to the middle-far-left and the article above (that OP claimed was Marxist) is all the way on the far right.

I’m not super interested in whether or not their Marxism was “authentic”, and neither is anyone who goes around, as OP did, randomly labeling things they don’t like as Marxist.

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