TOTAL CRITICISM OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: DEPENDENCY AND ACADEMIC DUALITY
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https://doi.org/10.35699/edur.v42i42.61591Keywords:
Critique of Dualistic Reason, Fictitious Capital, Institutional Duality, Marxist Dependency Theory, SuperexploitationAbstract
This article proposes an unprecedented theoretical articulation between Marxist
Dependency Theory (MDT) and the Critique of Dualistic Reason to analyze the structural crisis of public
universities in peripheral countries. It argues that the university is not just a victim of dependent
capitalism, but one of its most sophisticated devices for reproducing inequality. Based on the category of
the super-exploitation of labour (TMD) and the critique of deformed modernization (dualist reason), it
is shown that the institutional duality of the university - excellence for the few, precariousness for the
many - is a functional strategy of capital, and not a deviation. The text analyzes the financialization of
academic life, teacher burnout and the symbolic capture of knowledge, suggesting that resisting is more
than preserving: it is reinventing the university from the ordinary. In the end, a total critique is advocated
- not moralistic, but committed to the insubordination of forms of life and thought on the periphery
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