Socialism, Education, Revolution

Education as part or all of a means to a Socialist collective has two main obstacles.  One is that the Proletariat must overcome deeply ingrained indoctrination, i. e. institutional obfuscation of the truth of their condition, e. g. via Religion, to become aware of being victims of exploitation.  The other, probably more challenging, is that the beneficiaries of that exploitation have to be be convinced to relinquish those benefits.  To that end, the appeal to Justice has been partly successful over the decades, but, as is especially the case in the U. S., recalcitrance has ossified to the degree that has led Lovestone, as has been previously discussed, to declare American society an 'exception' to Marxist analysis.  At the heart of that recalcitrance is a problem that is as old as Plato and Aristotle--the chasm between believing what is best, and knowing what is best, even for oneself--which makes any effort to convince an exploiter that a Socialist collective is in their best interests, too, futile.  But, if education is thus doomed to failure, then the advocacy of Revolution as a means to a correction of Injustice may be justified.