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Re: No One Expects the Spanish Revolution? (4.00 / 5)
I don't really think it's about education in the formal sense.

We're living through an age of austerity in the UK designed and endorsed by an elite that has many graduates of Oxford's PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) degree...

It's much more about the neo-liberal/Austrian propaganda that the economy is a force of nature, a self-righting, self-stabilising system. And the accompanying "law of the jungle," "meritocracy" drum beat from the same source, amplified in the Daily Mail...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri May 20th, 2011 at 11:09:49 AM EST
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