ThinkLeft #4 - Is Our Education System Classist?

Gandipan Nantha Gopalan, Secretary, Pemuda Sosialis (PSM’s Youth Wing)

The Bigger Picture · Beyond The Ballot Box · 23 Jun 2022 · 29 mins listen

Karl Marx once wrote, “the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” We discuss what this critique means, if it still holds true today, as well as how we can restructure our education system to benefit the masses.

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Produced by:

Dashran Yohan

Presented by:

Dashran Yohan

Categories:

politics,Law/Activism,education

Tags:

politics,malaysian politics,socialism,left-wing,karl marx,education,ThinkLeft

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