1. The objective basis for an organisation of the type of the L.C.D.S.U. can only be the existence of a movement among students centred on an issue "internal" to higher education, but also of central importance to the plans of the Bourgeoisie. 2. The I.M.G. has made an analysis which points to a change in the relations between the students (and staff) in higher education and the bourgeoisie, a change which places the students objectively and spontaneously in opposition to the bourgeoisie's central aims in higher education. This change is coming about through the bourgeoisie's drive for a "technocratic reform" and rationalisation' and against the SU'S, and individual students in so far as they present political obstacles to such changes, 3. In so far as such deep going rationalisation of higher education and emasculation of SU's is taking place, the objective potentiality for a mass movement of students exists on an internal' issue which is at the same time political in the Marxist sense; i.e. it concerns the basic arrangements by which the bourgeoisie exercise its domination over other social classes and layers. 4. It was the absence of such an issue in the past which made any unitary organisations of the left based on
The Red MoleThe Red Mole Vol. 3, No. 43, 5 June 1972
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