Reagan had made his attack on public education, specifically the University of California at Berkeley, the organized resistance to the Vietnam War, the support for free speech, and civil and human rights, a centerpiece of his gubernatorial candidacy in 1966. While capitalists decried FDR's New Deal as socialism, the redistributive element of Keynesianism, "a universal concept in abstraction, the social wage during this period remained highly gendered and racialized." The redistribution of social wealth disproportionately favored specific groups of people while intentionally leaving out others. Freeman, the terms of the economic order were at stake during the " long civil rights movement."
This system was replaced by a loan system that monetized the right to learn.įor ideologues like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, and more, the advisors that surrounded them, from Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney to Lee Atwater and education advisor Robert K. Trafficking in the false assumption that the United States is a meritocracy, while ignoring the massive amounts of the social wage shifted to corporate tax breaks as part of a regressive taxing system, Reagan and the subsequent neoliberal ideologues on both sides of the isle cut off access for working-class people to relatively debt-free education. Lipset's "Polls and Protest," from a 1971 edition of Foreign Affairs journal. Depending on the Gallup Poll, questions from the late 1960s focused on young people – between 40-60%- who were against the Vietnam war, supported Civil Rights, and thought a revolution was necessary for the United States.
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