| As preface to a discussion of universities as instruments of class, Smyth presents Holloway's view of class that rejects Marxist definitions of class as too rigid and exclusionary in favour of a view of class as based on diginity: who has it and who does not. In contemporary capitalist societies, we have lost control over our own creative endeavour. "To put the argument most succinctly, what is being appropriated in class relations in capitalist societies is the notion of creativity" (126).
According to Holloway (1998), dignity is "the refusal to accept humiliation and dehumanisation, the refusal to conform" (p. 160).
Holloway, J. (1998). Dignity’s revolt. In J. Holloway & E. Peláez (Eds.), Zapatista! Reinventing revolution in Mexico (pp. 159–198). London: Pluto Press. |
