Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“The notion that #intelligence is a personal endowment or personal attainment is the great conceit of the #intellectualclass, as that of the #commercialclass is that #wealth is something which they personally have wrought and possess.” - #JohnDewey, The Public and Its Problems (1927) via #AdamTooze
bs2> This is American workers talking about their experiences in the 1840s. The labor press also condemned what they called the “#BoughtPriesthood,” referring to the #media and the #universities and the #IntellectualClass, that is, the #apologists who sought to justify the absolute #despotism that was the new spirit of the age and to instill its sordid and demeaning values...the mission of the #LaborMovement as to overcome “the sins and superstitions of the market”...
#Chomsky with #Ware (1924!)