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The vocation of teaching is now understood on all sides of the political spectrum to be a highly dangerous and suspect profession. Texts are accorded thaumaturgical powers to harm and damage. Syllabi containing too many dead white guys, or Marxists […] are viewed as celebratory monuments either of racial domination or past totalitarianisms. Critique is treated as violence.

That is why we teach social theory; it is one powerful therapy for the mental disorder of reification.

For Weber and Durkheim, the law (interpreted either as a form of command and obedience, or as condensation of a more diffused set of common norms) constitutes the modernity of the modern state. But the Marxist theory has a more differentiated view. Law reigns in “normal times,” but law is suspended when the class struggle reaches that critical point during which existing relations of property become a stake

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