Are They Rich Because They're Smart?: Class, Privilege and Learning Under Capitalism
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1604880872 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Only then will we discover our own worth and learn what we re capable of becoming. In the coming battles forced upon us by the capitalist rulers, says Jack Barnes, workers will begin to transform ourselves and our attitudes toward life, work, and each other. It takes apart the self-serving rationalizations of a growing layer of well-paid professionals that their schooling and brightness equip them to regulate the lives of working people, who can t be trusted to know what s in our own interests. Introduction by Steve Clark, photos, index.Also available in Spanish.. Are They Rich Because They re Smart? explains the sharpening class inequalities in the United States and the resulting conflicts accelerated by today s slow-burning world depr
OR ARE THEY "SMART" BECAUSE THEY'RE RICH? “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas” (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach (Great Books in Philosophy)).Every ruling group since the end of pre-class society (See Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State [Paperback] [1972] Friedrich Engels) uses myths to explain their exalted position; once people believed in “the divine right of kings.”Force alone is not enough, although there’s plenty of that—just look at the numbe