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Social mobility is no substitute for social change
Opportunity, as an ideology, can never replace equality as a lived experience, writes STEPHEN LOW
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Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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SOCIAL mobility in Britain has, in the words of the government’s own commission on the matter, been “stagnant” in recent years. The question the left should be asking about this isn’t so much “how is this to be tackled?” so much as “why do we need social mobility?”
Social mobility is all about saying we should have an equal chance in the rat race. Well we all know who rat races are for. Better that we look toward social equality and a better life for everyone.
Social mobility has its advocates everywhere.
Take sometime education secretary Justine Greening declaring “improving social mobility is a defining challenge for us as a nation.” Yet when it comes to tackling the most serious issues facing us talk is, at best, misplaced. At its worst it is a smokescreen designed to obscure a determination to preserve inequality and unfairness.
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