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> a real battle fought by working people in England and the U.S. to defend themselves against what they called the degradation and oppression and violence of the industrial capitalist system, which was not only dehumanizing them but was even radically reducing their intellectual level.
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Education is Ignorance, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Class Warfare)

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> So, you go back to the mid-nineteenth century and these so-called “#FactoryGirls,” young girls working in the #Lowell [Massachusetts] mills, were reading serious contemporary literature. They recognized that the point of the system was to turn them into tools who would be manipulated, degraded, kicked around, and so on. And they fought against it bitterly for a long period. That’s the history of the rise of #capitalism.
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> They are concerned with what they call “degradation” and loss of dignity and independence, loss of self-respect, the decline of the worker as a person, the sharp decline in cultural level and cultural attainments as workers were subjected to what they called “wage slavery,” which they regarded as not very different from the chattel slavery they had fought to uproot during the Civil War.
#DemocracyAndEducation speech transcript in #ChomskyOnMisEducation
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