So, to start, a lot of HS students with aspirations of going to a university of some sort have to spend a decent amount of their last year or 2 trying to court different colleges for scholarships (most of which are colleges you’ve never heard of offering like $400 off or something) and free ride scholarships are (and this is admittedly anecdotal) unheard of in my area (suburb near major city). Should more socialist minded youth without the means to go to college find jobs? I don’t say this out of an anti-education perspective or some sort of belief that colleges are too liberal of institutions or anything, if it was free for families to send their children to school, I’d be all for it. What do yall think? And feel free to give me book suggestions or quotes from Leftists if you have any that may apply to this, specifically on the topic of the US where college costs more annually on average than any other nation.
Yes, that’s right. Perhaps I should’ve phrased my initial statement differently. From my observation, the majority of people in socialist organizations are generally students, white collar workers, people with higher educations/professionals, etc. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with this, but in my opinion and experience, this does hinder their ability to connect with lower paid working people and the greater masses in general, and in the greater international world this makes western countries’ movements quite different from the class character of those where socialist revolutions have historically taken place.