Re:Going to university does not broaden the mind
by fdrg on Saturday November 24, 2018 @07:34AM
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This is not wrong at all. Compared to other professions, university-employed academics did well.
How is it controversial that it is easier for someone who is directly employed by the state to be a socialist?
You mention Marxist discourse in West Germany. It was easy for Adorno to be a socialist, because all he could do was talk in a convoluted, content-free manner.
Celibidache (who actually did something), called him the biggest windbag of the 20th century.
We can see it, for example, in the GDR, the former East of Germany where social sciences basically died. At the very same time, West-Germany developed a hugely influential discourse (...with a lot of Marxists, despite all the tensions).
One could say that specific individuals from academia might profit from having symbolic capital to convert into political power, but that's hardly an idea that could be universally applied.