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

    • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Don’t ever hope for academic employment.

      This. You really cannot overstate how hard the state is trying to kill academia. Every branch of academia that can’t be immediately monetized on the market will be dead within like a decade and universities will be nothing more than corporate training sites, producing nothing but mindless morons ready for the labour market.