I mean, the first paragraph is an interesting hypothesis. As most thing I believe it’s an inertia thing, as long standing institutions, especially appealing to traditional mindset, tend to lean elitist and classist. So, not really planned, just turned out that way.
Then they mention Pol Pot and the whole discussion goes out the window.
Godwin’s Law, I know, but one of the first thing nazis did in occupied Poland, after establishing their governance was round up Jagiellonian Uni professors and sent them to a concentration camp. Not because they were enemies of the proletariat, but because they were perceived as a threat to exploitation.
In post-war people’s republic you couldn’t get higher education if you came from educated city households. To lift up workers and farmers? No, to make sure newly well educated engineers and cultural elites were loyal to the party line, and to break any ties to old ways of thinking.
I do see the irony of ranting in a trolljerk community thread.
I mean, the first paragraph is an interesting hypothesis. As most thing I believe it’s an inertia thing, as long standing institutions, especially appealing to traditional mindset, tend to lean elitist and classist. So, not really planned, just turned out that way.
Then they mention Pol Pot and the whole discussion goes out the window.
Godwin’s Law, I know, but one of the first thing nazis did in occupied Poland, after establishing their governance was round up Jagiellonian Uni professors and sent them to a concentration camp. Not because they were enemies of the proletariat, but because they were perceived as a threat to exploitation.
In post-war people’s republic you couldn’t get higher education if you came from educated city households. To lift up workers and farmers? No, to make sure newly well educated engineers and cultural elites were loyal to the party line, and to break any ties to old ways of thinking.
I do see the irony of ranting in a trolljerk community thread.