• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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      Harvard produces capitalist asswipes like Zuckerberg who destroy the world searching for endless profits.

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        They also produce world class doctors, researchers and a number of other professionals…

        Did you get a rejection letter?

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        It sounds as if you’re saying Harvard only produces capitalist apologists. If so, do you know Stephen Marglin? Richard Levins? Paul Farmer? Michael Herzfeld? Terry Eagleton?

        Regardless, it’s tempting to dismiss elite academic institutions. They have time and again served the interests of elites. However, they have also been the place where radical and critical thought has burgeoned. Academia holds in its hands the tools to build our prison as well as tools that we can choose to use to escape from that prison.