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

[Ulvi İçil]

Word file is working.

Thanks.

Ulvi


On 5 March 2017 at 14:23, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> 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
>> 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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