Admittedly, it seems prima facie ridiculous. The thing is, socialism, Marxism, worker's rights, and etc., started in the university and spread from there. htt

Admittedly, it seems prima facie ridiculous. The thing is, socialism, Marxism, worker's rights, and etc., started in the university and spread from there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France , for example. So it's not so much that the philosophy students have purloined the language and ideology of "actual workers", but rather that their intellectual ancestors created the social context in which these "actual workers" were able to strike, form unions, and etc.