Essay:Breeding and rearing of proles

Capitalists and their minions, in order to ensure a plentiful and compliant workforce, attempt to structure society and culture in ways that ensure that the natural ability of the proletariat remains in large part undeveloped, a caste of proles.

Although natural human ability varies, most people have the ability, if appropriately motivated and educated, to acquire sophisticated culture and develop intellectual and manual abilities which enable them to do productive work and make rational decisions. One of the predictable decisions working people will make is to have no more children then they can support; a decision which, if made on a mass basis, can result in a falling population. This defeats the purpose of the capitalist class which relies on a large ignorant workforce to labor for it. Through its minions such as the Catholic Church and Jeb Bush unlimited breeding is encouraged, and, if domestic breeding is insufficient, attempts to import massive numbers of immigrants to fill the gaps in the domestic workforce.

In the days of slavery in the southern United States teaching a slave to read was a crime; likewise, in contemporary capitalist cultures public education for the masses is devoted more to dumbing down than cultivation of intellectual abilities and skills. Students' time is taken up with rote-learning and memorization and testing on its content. Intellectual exploration is discouraged on the part of either teachers or students, as is acquisition of practical workplace skills.