This was by no means a defensive protest to freeze tuition
fees and other education costs, but rather an offensive action for a
tuition-free education. This was a march on governments around the world to
demand for the human right to education.
Student debt is a political tool to dominate, subjugate and
repress the most revolutionary group in society. Students who are in-debt are
far less likely to be agitators in society. Debt forces youth to keep quiet and
not to question working conditions, benefits, job security and to accept high
levels of financial exploitation. Student debt discourages youth from joining
and attempting to create labor unions to fight for better wages and working
conditions. In other words, a student’s debt is the chains in which capitalism
keeps him/her as “obedient” wage slaves in our society.
Students around the world must also demand to change the
content of education they are receiving. Fighting for a tuition free education
is one important step forward, however if the content being taught in colleges
and universities only supports the reproduction of a despotic system of
exploitation, than it must be stopped! Universities must not be for-profit
corporations that only function to increase their net profit value.
Universities must be free institutions that teach emancipatory ideas that at
the least challenge the statuesque and promote innovative thinking that upholds
human rights and freedom at their core.
Western countries such as Britain and US, with their high
tuition, are only generating short-term surplus at the cost of a catastrophic
long term dwindling demand in the markets.
It has now become clear that by increasing tuition fees and
consequently, student debt, it only works to reduce the purchasing power of a
large section of consumers in society. Being in debt means that less goods and
services are bought and in turn less revenue is generated by businesses across
the country: the system shooting itself in the foot.
Changes to education are introduced as “reform” by the
governments around the world, which translate into more privatization of
educational institutions in addition to higher tuition fees. However these
failed government policies are by no means miscalculated out of short
sightedness of capital accumulation formula that favors short-term profits:
this is a gross misinterpretation of the current education policies by
capitalist governments around the world. These “reforms” are in reality far
less about the short-term so called “deficit reduction” economics of a nation,
but rather they are highly politically motivated to choke the student movement
at its most revolutionary time in human history.
It is clear in history that youth are the group in society
that create the biggest spark for revolution that other groups join. It is this
revolutionary character that alarms capitalist regimes around the world and it
is this spark they are so desperately trying to extinguish!
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