Scrutinizing the powerful is a truth bomb. Everything over-time is being gradually changed to
exclude academic freedom in production of critical and genuinely objective works, in favor of
essentially hegemonic international capitalist money-power interests with creeping control over
programs and research, creating bias. The article effectively explains this with criminology, for
example, and how the corrupt global capitalist interests commit crime essentially, and why this
isn't often studied. Ten out of ten.
The article effectively explains how the University, International capitalist hegemony, and the
State, controls much of society, and explains the education marketization trend well. It's exactly
laid out the University can mystify capital interests and justify the state. The university controls
production of labor and consciousness for international capital interests and governments. The
University and government are part of the complex associations in society which are trenches in
the battle between different parties. Gramsci is well exemplified here.
One thing that came to mind with Gramsci here, was reality of complexity in wars of maneuver
and position, for the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic. I don't believe people comprehend the
counter-hegemonic forces, not just the working class, and common citizens, but also rival
capitalist elite factions, foreign governments, and hegemony itself seeking to retain control, for
example.
Therefore complementary to Gramsci's battlefield metaphor, I additionally favored a chessboard
metaphor. Kings are international capital, finance, and banking, Queens represents multinational
corporations, both whom influence Gramsci's trenches, where state organizations, including
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