question for college educated people older than 25: if you had it to do over again, and you could go back to school and pursue a career in academia, what field or fields would you go into to have the greatest positive impact (from a Marxist’s point of view), which field would you choose? assuming you can start from the very beginning, i.e., get a new bachelors before moving into a masters and a phd
question for the zoomers: if you could study anything at university without having to worry about whether or not you could make a decent living afterwards, with a view to making the world less shit, what would you study and why?
long story short, my parents have come into some money and i may have this opportunity and i want to choose my field of study wisely. when i went to college at 18 i double majored in french (good choice bc i love languages and the humanities in general, and it expanded my worldview outside of amerikkka) and business (bad choice bc lmao) and i don’t want to make the same mistake again. currently i’m thinking history because a) i’ve always loved history, from literally as long as i can remember and b) history is a weapon and i want to use it to behead the capitalists. im also interested in international relations, but only from a based point of view
note that if i do go back to school, it will be somewhere in europe, bc fuck paying for a university education in america lol worst mistake of my life
basically what i’m saying is, from the ivory tower of academia i will rain hellfire on the upper class until they are utterly destroyed, or i will die trying. tell me what to study in order to accomplish this
Death to America
If you feel like making yourself go literally insane and actively hostile to most of the people around you, you could go for a law track. Something relevant for undergrad (it doesn’t matter that much AFAIK, history’s a fun one that works.) and then on to law school. Good lawyers working for good causes can actually do a relatively high amount of good at the individual level. From union lawyer to tenants’ rights, there’s a lot of places that you can make a direct, visible difference in people’s lives. That’s a super hard road to walk down, though. It’s a frustrating and monotonous profession composed mostly of reading the driest documents in human history, the pay is rarely good if it’s something worth doing, a huge proportion of the people you’ll be going to school with will give you a full-body feeling of visceral disgust, and it requires diligently working within the confines of a system that I’m going to assume you know is a wretched abomination.