In an ideal society – Oxford University would be the pinnacle of ‘Socialist’ education! As it stands, Oxford University is the pinnacle of Bourgeois opulence, class distinction, grace and favour! Indeed, my mother’s family used to live in Lewisham (the East End of London) – before Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombed the area during September, 1941! Thousands of our bombed-out neighbours were moved into the Chislehurst Caves – where they created an underground City for the duration of War (in fact, until the incumbent Labour Party had finished building thousands of decent Council Houses in 1947) – whilst my family (the ‘Gibson’ Clan) were given a Train Pass and relocated to Oxford – where some of our relatives had been sent for work during an earlier bombing.
This is how my mother’s side of my family ended-up in Oxford – and the reason I was born in this ancient city in 1967! In reality, we are working-class people relocated by Mr Hitler to a Bourgeois Centre of Education – perhaps the best place for all-round education in the world! This is why I know about the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race! Although I am just a Proletariat with no Bourgeois abilities whatsoever, but as I got older, I met some very good teachers who taught me how to use my brain properly and even compete with the snobs and the privileged who had been given everything since birth! This is why I studied (as an external student) a course in ‘Philosophy of Mind’ at Oxford – but only after achieving a PhD in Spiritual Metaphysics (elsewhere). Of course, I do not believe in theistic religion – but am very interested as to why it is that many others believe in religion. In this regard, I take the objective ‘Soviet’ position with regards academic study.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 