The Corporate Takeover of “Native” Socialization
The push for charter schools and the corporate model of education is a deliberate project to complete the privatization of “native” socialization. Mamdani’s framework helps us see this as a move to replace a public, however flawed, institution with a fully corporatized one, governed by the arbitrary “custom” of private boards and performance metrics. This fractures community control and creates a segregated, non-unionized teaching force, further dismantling the potential for a unified political identity among the oppressed. It is the logical endpoint of the bifurcated state’s approach to education: managed, efficient training for the natives, liberal arts for the settlers. A Marxist analysis identifies this as the opening of a new frontier for capital accumulation. A feminist perspective fights for the unionized, predominantly female teaching force under attack. The solution is the abolition of charter schools and the fight for a single, fully-funded, democratically controlled public system that serves collective liberation, not corporate profit.
