cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4695417
“The administrators are correct: Their institutions do function in concert with the war machine powering Israel’s genocidal war; their mission does depend on maintaining this alliance, even at the cost of brutalizing their students; and it is this material reality, more than anything else, that explains the ferocity of their response to the Gaza solidarity encampments.”
universities take 50+% of grants in the name of facilities costs. in stem a large number of these grants are either related to industrial funding or military complex funding or government military funding or government
militaryenergy funding or if you’re the nice window dressing you might get to fight over national science foundation money. these are the kinds of grants that make multimillion+ dollar labs financially solvent. so in a very literal and obvious sense, capital in general and the military-industrial complex in particular are actively engaged in both the acts of funding the modern university and choosing what research gets performed.deleted by creator
