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A screenshot of a form titled “Evaluation of Counseling Intern by Site Supervisor” with question 34 reading, “Please address ways in which the academic program could better prepare students for your training program”, and the response stating, “Teach Marx”. The form was signed by “Gary” with a time stamp 12 minutes prior to the time stamp of this post.
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Can anyone eli5?
Not eli5, I’ll try:
The joke is to submit the questionnaire with a provocative answer, which might put people on edge.
Teaching Marx(ism), would generally help to understand the world and actually improve the academic program. Thus, it is possibly an actually good answer. Marxism concludes in a critique of capitalism, however even without teaching that part, if you are equipped with an understanding of the world and your position in it, you can autonomously conclude why capitalism is detrimental and needs to be overcome.
In capitalism, however, the ruling class (bourgeoisie) generally frowns upon the education of the masses, if it might lead them to challenge the(ir) dictatorship of capital.
The person looking through the submissions is definitely not part of the ruling class, but might act in anticipatory obedience. Also they might be influenced by propaganda (Red Scare) enough to actually believe that teaching Marx is bad. This makes the suggestion unlikely to actually be taken serious, let alone to be implemented.
The science of how to overcome capitalism isn’t addressed by Marx in much detail and will be covered in the next chapter (Marxism-Leninism)
I linked to Wikipedia for convenience, but note that Wikipedia isn’t the best source for studying this.
This is a great answer! It definitely won’t be taken seriously, but I did mean it lol. My practice is explicitly anarchist, so teaching their students about Marxism would quite literally prepare them for working with me
When I posted my comment, refreshed and saw your 30min old comment pop up, I couldn’t believe how long it took me writing this 🙃
Aw 😅 you did a really great job of it though! It adds a lot of useful context and details that I didn’t bother to mention
Karl Marx was based.
I’m a therapist and I operate an educational clinic; part of my role as a supervisor in this dynamic is completing evaluations of the interns for their schools.
The screenshot is from one of those forms from a university asking me for feedback, and I told them a way that their program can better prepare their students for working with me is to teach them about Marx/Marxism
