Show threadbs2Oct 27, 2023
> For similar reasons, #AdamSmith warned that in any civilized society governments would have to intervene to prevent the #DivisionOfLabor from making people “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be.” He based his rather nuanced advocacy of #markets on the thesis that if conditions were truly free, markets would lead to perfect #equality. That was their #MoralJustification. All of this has been forgotten by the #BoughtPriesthood #御用学者
#技師
bs2Oct 27, 2023
> Wilhelm von Humboldt,..inspired John Stuart Mill .. like.. Adam Smith, regarded creative work freely undertaken in association with others as the core value of a human life. So if a person produces an object on command, Humboldt wrote, we may admire what he did but we will despise what he is, not a true human being who acts on his own impulses and desires...
#NoamChomsky #DemocracyAndEducation #Humboldt #WilhelmHumboldt and other thinkers on #Work #CreativeWork v. #BoughtPriesthood #御用学者
Show threadbs2Jan 8, 2023
> 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!)
Show threadbs2Mar 23, 2022
> 8. Recognized intellectuals and artists support our cause
9. Our cause is sacred
10. Whoever casts doubt on our propaganda helps the enemy and is a traitor
#御用学者 #boughtPriesthood #ManufactureOfConsent