You’re Both Wrong
Interestingly, I feel as though [Laura] Beeston and [Henry] Aubin’s analyses of the student movement (In Vol. 32, Iss. 3 of The Link and in the Sept. 6 issue of The Gazette, respectively) are both insufficient, though quite differently.
Beeston is correct that a student struggle resigned to contesting tuition will bolster “the economic future of the whole province,” and won’t “weaken society.” Aubin is correct when he labels this as students “wanting to hang on to their own privilege” and calls it “reactionary” (like the Tea Party).
In order to not be simply another interest group scrambling for the crumbs from the capitalist pie, the student movement must recreate itself as a front in the broader struggle against capital. We should weaken this society, which, honestly, needs to be smashed—another world is possible.
