Blog Post 10 - Darrick Smith

The whole idea of the class struggle being real is one that has plagued humanity all throughout history. During the height of the Roman Empire, the divide was between the patricians and the plebeians; during the Middle Ages, class struggles were between the feudal lords and the serfs; and during the French Revolution, class tensions between the nobility and peasants resulted in a violent and bloody conflict. Today, class conflict takes a different form – capitalism. Through the advent of modern globalization, we have developed the idea that the global economy is locked in a system that uses education as a barrier to achieve greater things. This is a system based on exploitation, as Darrick Smith remarks, “You have a system established on slaughter as a foundation of all wealth.” While I don’t believe capitalism is all bad – in fact, it’s been quite useful to industrialized development – I, like many other greater minds before me, can’t help but wonder what the world would be like if every person had an equal shot. For people to escape the system, as Darrick Smith points out, "their education has to more complex … and combine both the intellectual and emotional requirements of someone in that context.” This is the only way modern class divides can be done away with.