ABSTRACT
Marxism is not a closed system of thought but a set of guiding ideas and a conceptual analytic framework which, undoubtedly, raises many unanswered questions in the course of its application. Marxism, however, is more than just another point of view. It is inspired by a critique of class societies, and a political commitment to work to transcend the deformations inherent in relations of domination and exploitation. The interests of the dominant classes are served by the horizontal and vertical differentiation of the workers involved in schooling. Whilst authoritarianism obviously serves the interests of capital, its reverse in libertarianism does not necessarily serve to undermine the social relationships of domination on which capitalism depends. The main goal of struggles over the curriculum is to maximize the possibility of exposing more pupils to a basic analysis of the capitalist institutions they inhabit and the poverty of the solutions it offers for the social ills of our time.
