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Public Education
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. . . public education and Social Security are residues of a dangerous conception that we're all in this together and we have to work together to create a better life and a better future. If you're trying to maximize profit or maximize consumption, then working together is the wrong idea. It has to be beaten out of people's heads. Solidarity makes people hard to control and prevents them from being passive objects of private power. So you have to have a propaganda system that overcomes any devia
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― Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
― Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
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Nya nodded. "So many people come here without an understanding of the primary cause of the Civil War. Some people think Jefferson wrote the Constitution. I mean there are just so many ways that our public education is failing people by just not giving them the context to understand that Monticello is a plantation, and that slavery was a system that created the economic prosperity that enabled our country to exist. That is not something most people understand. I don't really blame them, because t
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― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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