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008 - Red Plenty, Part 1

General Intellect Unit

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The Soviet Union and Its Social Sciences

The soviet union kind of dismantled its university and education systems. They replaced it all with stem and let the humanities wither entirely. The remaining social scientists fulfilled a role very similar to economists in our society. There is a formal similarity to what has happened under neoliberalism with what happened under Stalin right that no they aren't taking us out back of the university and shooting us they don't need to, can let you die in your own.

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