TOTAL CRITICISM OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: DEPENDENCY AND ACADEMIC DUALITY

Abstract

This article proposes an unprecedented theoretical articulation between Marxist Dependency Theory (MDT) and the Critique of Dualistic Reason to analyze the structural crisis of public universities in peripheral countries. It argues that the university is not just a victim of dependent capitalism, but one of its most sophisticated devices for reproducing inequality. Based on the category of the super-exploitation of labour (TMD) and the critique of deformed modernization (dualist reason), it is shown that the institutional duality of the university - excellence for the few, precariousness for the many - is a functional strategy of capital, and not a deviation. The text analyzes the financialization of academic life, teacher burnout and the symbolic capture of knowledge, suggesting that resisting is more than preserving: it is reinventing the university from the ordinary. In the end, a total critique is advocated - not moralistic, but committed to the insubordination of forms of life and thought on the periphery.