• Maddier1993
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    6 months ago

    Colleges didn’t exist in communism?

    • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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      6 months ago

      They did, but you got training in whatever the state wanted, not the individual.

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        6 months ago

        This is not true. At least here in Romania, the issue with colleges under communism was that there were VERY limited slots, so you had to either be the best of the best or have a high up party member in the family or as a close personal friend.

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          6 months ago

          So you are basically agreeing? Not true on paper but in practice you couldn’t just get into college, which is what OP claimed.

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            6 months ago

            No, I’m disagreeing. You could study anything you wanted, not what the state wanted. It was just hard to get a slot.

            I guess it’s similar to how it’s incredibly hard to get a scholarship at a great university today. You’d hardly say that the modern scholarship system “forces you to study what the state wants”.

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              Not as different as recent past in Brazil. Federal and State universities where free and the top of the country, but the slots were few and the competition high. And because class disparities were reinforced on school education, even if the universities were free, only rich and middle income families were able to get in. Since the first Lula’s government, there have been policies in place to ensure that public schools and black students have exclusive slots. Brazillian middle class hate it, but they can eat it. This year was the first time in history that USP (best university in Brazil) had more admission from public schools that for private ones.

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                6 months ago

                Yeah, that does sound very comparable to what I was talking about. Your example and mine both do not have the state deciding what university you apply to though, which is what I understood from “the state decides what you’ll study”.

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                  6 months ago

                  The university you apply for has nothing to do with what you’ll study if admissions are politically motivated.

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              6 months ago

              Spherical cow in a vacuum argument…

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        6 months ago

        Can you provide historical references that prove this statement? I’ve only seen this idea presented in anti-communist propaganda, speculation, and works of fiction.

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        23 days ago

        How is it different in capitalism? You are forced to get a degree in something you can get a job.

        Capitalism doesn’t work unless you are rich.