[Xmca-l] Re: The most, the best educated and the most dangerous

[Andy Blunden]

That didn't seem to work. Try the attached Word.doc. If that 
doesn't work, I'll send it to you individually,

Andy

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Andy Blunden
http://home.mira.net/~andy
http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 

On 5/03/2017 11:18 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
> Ulvi, I have attached (in HTML) Gramsci on "The 
> Intellectuals." You may find this useful.
>
> Andy
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> Andy Blunden
> http://home.mira.net/~andy
> http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 
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> On 5/03/2017 6:41 AM, Ulvi İçil wrote:
>> Well, given that education is a class issue in capitalist 
>> society, any
>> society,
>> that the best most educated are placing themselves en 
>> masse on the side of
>> the dominant class
>>
>> can we think that the most "educated" and also the "best" 
>> educated are
>> at the same time the most dangerous people for the humanity
>>
>> because they are located at the most critical 
>> decision-making points
>> of a social order.
>>
>> Well,  this can be a really trivial issue but since I 
>> could not meet it in
>> my country's intellectual life,communist and non 
>> communist, I needed to ask
>> it for world experience.
>>
>> It seems that the best educated seem to be en masse the 
>> most dangerous ones
>> to initiate wars etc whereas the least educated formally 
>> but the best
>> self-educated via working class instititutions seem to be 
>> the most
>> emancipatory and in fact best educated people in the real 
>> sense of the
>> world (e.g. José Marti)
>>
>> Erdogan is obviously not the most educated in my country, 
>> Turkey, nor was
>> Hitler nor Bush.
>>
>> But Obama, Clinton, Hollande, Javier Solana (who 
>> destroyed Yugoslavia with
>> Nato bombing) Merkel were and all well educated...and 
>> quite dangerous.
>>
>> I was really surprised to the self- gathered conscience 
>> of one of my
>> friends when he stated that Hillary Clinton was a very 
>> dangerous woman.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ulvi
>>
>>
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