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Thread #159498   Message #3779752
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Mar-16 - 06:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: Trump II- The Horror Continues
Subject: RE: BS: Trump II- The Horror Continues
"Education is the only sustainable method to change the system"
Then while the education system remains the under the control of the state and the most influential sections of the media dedicates itself to maintaining the status quo, things will either remain the same or deteriorate.
No society has ever introduced significant changes willingly - obtaining national suffrage, votes for women better working conditions - all results of sometimes vioent opposition to peaceful protest.
Steps towards real democracy were brought about as a direct result of two woreld wars, and the really important ones brought in after WW2 by the Labour Government have now virtually been torn to shreds - nationalisation, social housing, free health care for all... all systematically destroyed.
Trump is little more than ailing capitalism digging its heels in to make the result of its own contradictions disappear - a fascist plaster for a gaping wound.
It is significant that nations such as Cuba, China and the former U.S.S.R all introduced massive improvements to their education systems once the changes had been put into place, but that was only made possible by mobilising the uneducated in the first place.
One of the golden rules of all repressive systems is that you don't educate slaves, especially not to improve their lot.
How exactly do you envision education changing anything as things stand at the present?
Jim Carroll