The Uses of UC Berkeley: Research
Printed in 1969 by the Radical Student Union (ASUC funded).
From the back cover:
- This report deals with the Regents and U.S. corporate capitalism's commandeering of the University of California for their own profit at great social expense. The report shows, for example, how the university is used to develop machinery and techniques for the agricultural industry at no cost to the growers, how the university helps to develop diabolical chemical and biological weapons, and how the social sciences are used to spread and maintain imperialism abroad and to help contain social unrest at home. The report deals with a varied selection of research projects in many areas of the university. The arguments made could be applied equally well to virtually every field of inquiry represented at the university although the application is often nontrivial. The conculsion of the report is that the university has been subverted from from within and from without to inhuman ends and that either society must be fundamentally rearranged with an upheaval, at least, in values or the university must be closed and research withheld so that research will not be utilized to increase human suffereing beyond its present intolerable level.
Here's the whole thing, or else see it in parts, below:
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