His interpretation of the “problem” and its “solution” was a creature of a materialistic worldview which emanated from so-called “enlightenment” thinking, emslaved to a worldview addicted to “progress”.

A universalist worldview based on abstract concepts of “classes” in conflict, was and still is profoundly destructive of any organic traditions of A People, and how people really live as they are “thrown into” the world of a particular people in a particular place and time. Being is always DAsein, rather than an academic abstraction.

The Marxian heresy against real Peoples pervades currently fashionable academic discourses, and that’s not benefitted real peoples one bit. Freeing up real peoples to be themselves unto and for themselves would utterly destroy supremacist materialist discourses which are the daily bread and butter of so-called “higher education” … an enterprise which is itself a bigger part of the problem than any solution.

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You bring up an excellent point however, re: “education” being all too often a revolving door in which the newly educated move up in the hierarchy, only to find the lowest rungs immediately filled up again with the nouveau exploited.

It is the system of exploitation itself that needs dismantling. Marx pointed the way. But between his theory and the opportunistic “practice” a huge chasm has formed that no one seems capable of eradicating.
Hobbes was right - the only thing that moves people to action is enlightened self-interest, i.e. what’s in it for me?

Thanks for the comment.

C

Those miners wanted an “education” you say? Yes, so their positions would be filled by others, not them. “Education” is merely training that changes the names of the exploited. The real problem is not addressed, or even mentioned by “education”.