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The second element in the world-historical repertory of legal thought is the idea of law as the will of the sovereign. The sovereign is the state, or whoever holds governmental power. Thus, law as the will of the sovereign is also the law willed by the state and imposed by the state on society.
The Universal History of Legal Thought
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of a society. Rather, the opposite is the case: __to examine the constitution of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the completed structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history.__
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
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