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Comment on Opening Education beyond the property relation: from commons to communism. by Scoping the relationships between social media and open education in the development of a resilient higher education | Richard Hall's Space

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Comment on Opening Education Beyond the Property Relation: From Commons to Communism by George Roberts

George Roberts — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:04:41 +0000

“Call out the instigators…” community and identity?

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On Thinking Theoretically « Learning Change — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:39:53 +0000

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[...] University of Utopia Opening Education Beyond the Property Relation: From Commons to Communism: The article contends that Marx’s mature theory against capitalist work provides the substantial intellectual basis on which to theorise Open Education as a revolutionary practice [...]

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Comment on On Thinking Theoretically by university of utopia

university of utopia — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:24:27 +0000

Mass education (transmitting information through closely defined learning outcomes) is not the same as mass intellectuality ( critique at the level of society or the general intellect). One thing that has not changed since the Grundrisse is the predominance of capitalist social relations – in fact it has intensified ( real subsumption). Neoliberalism is the latest form of the crisis of capitalism: a non-solution in the form of a solution. Capital is still the central issue.

Comment on On Thinking Theoretically by Forskningsfrihed

Forskningsfrihed — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:50:00 +0000

Comment to the statement “In capitalist society the general intellect has been appropriated by the expansive process of capitalist production, and turned against the individuals, academics and students, who produced that knowledge.”
– this may be true true, but to add nuances into the analysis: Something happened to the capitalist societies since the Grundrisse was written. E.g., elitist universities for the high class became mass universities for high and middle class. The societies in the 20th Century became a mix of capitalist economics and institutions of social wellfare state, to some extent for “the common good”, thanks to the struggles of social democrats, the working class movement, trade unions etc., and influenced that historical compromise between a capitalist market and state institutions mediating also working class interests. What’s at state today is maybe not so much capitalism in itself as those specific neoliberalist interventions into the classic welfare states (e.g., New Public Management) threatening also the democratic institutions and the former more democratic governance models.