Education in the Age of Neoliberal Dystopia

Education in the Age of Neoliberal Dystopia is a timely Marxist intervention into the history of education and the detrimental effects its neoliberalization has had in capitalist countries, which is contrasted with the educational systems in socialist countries like Cuba, China, and the former USSR. It also challenges dominant Western "Marxist" perspectives on science and education.

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Education in the Age of Neoliberal Dystopia is a powerful examination of education at this current historical juncture where radical possibilities for alternative futures have been hijacked by the agents and agencies of neoliberal capitalism, sending a bolt into the very heart of Benjamin's Angel of History. At a time in which we are still in the process of reclaiming some edifice of knowledge, some secure construction of political agency, some necessary center, some sanctuary of closure, after being pummeled by postmodernist thinkers who took away opportunities by which to grasp the foundations of our moral obligations to one another as agents of liberation, and who turned us all into doomsday forecasters stocking up on luxury survival kits, Yanis Iqbal offers us a profound Marxist analysis of the current state of social decay. And in doing so he presents us with a critical architecture by which to contemplate a new beginning.


















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