10-08-2011, 11:25 PM
Thanks for the complete response Ed. I can't type fast so the post amazes me. I'm sure you have a few tricks to accomplish that though. At any rate I am not going to go into an explication of Marxism but will say that its reality caused Marx to see into its inner workings resulting in his class analysis of state capitalism as a system that needed to go away with the help of the proletariat. When classes cease to exist as Magda says we have no further need for the state as we experience it. My point is that big govt. is ultimately a problem the right and left have more agreement about than they think. I agree education, as you describe with your bibliography, will create humans that would make a stateless society possible, i.e. a "socialist man".
I would disagree with you though by saying MORE money does need to be spent on education. Not to pay teachers more necessarily but to hire more of them to cut class sizes drastically. As long as we have a class based state that generates tremendous poverty we can only compensate by having more teachers "hand making" student outcomes instead of "mass producing" them assembly line style.
I would disagree with you though by saying MORE money does need to be spent on education. Not to pay teachers more necessarily but to hire more of them to cut class sizes drastically. As long as we have a class based state that generates tremendous poverty we can only compensate by having more teachers "hand making" student outcomes instead of "mass producing" them assembly line style.