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In a society based upon commodity exchange, everyone must follow the logic of exchange if he or she wants to survive. It is not merely the result of my “utility maximizing” behavior if I want to sell my own commodities dearly and buy other commodities cheaply. Rather, I have no other choice (unless I am so rich that I can choose to ignore exchange relationships). And since I am not capable of seeing an alternative, maybe I even perceive my own behavior as “natural.” When the majority behaves in the manner indicated, they also reproduce the social relations that commodity exchange is based upon, and therefore the compulsion for every individual to continue to behave accordingly.
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
This is perhaps one of the greatest tricks of the current neoliberal education reform project: their primary tools for reform—charter schools, high-stakes testing to hold teachers and schools accountable, and deregulated teacher education programs, among others—are premised on holding individual teachers and schools wholly accountable for achievement, when __we have known from decades of research that non-school factors associated with socioeconomic inequality are overwhelmingly important to school outcomes (including flawed test scores).__
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. __Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.__
The Book of Tea
Kakuzo Okakura
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