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Full Idea
Communists seek to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
Gist of Idea
Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class
Source
K Marx / F Engels (The Communist Manifesto [1848], §2)
Book Ref
Marx,K./Engels,F.: 'The Communist Manifesto', ed/tr. Taylor,A.J.P. [Penguin 1973], p.100
A Reaction
Someone has to control education, and I would personally prefer it if the controllers were well educated themselves. Neutral education is an idle dream. We must educate for democracy, if we really want democracy.
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| 5302 | Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees [Marx/Engels] |
| 5301 | The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles [Marx/Engels] |
| 5306 | The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all [Marx/Engels] |
| 5305 | Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class [Marx/Engels] |
| 5304 | Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property [Marx/Engels] |
| 5307 | Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence [Marx/Engels] |
| 21998 | Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion [Marx/Engels] |