Nor is it the worst. Youth are denied basic democratic rights. In school, youth are prevented from exercising any control over the administration or content of their education. Blind obedience is instilled as a positive virtue. This prepares the future worker for the labour discipline that capitalism demands, and gives servitude its ideological legitimation.
Sexual repression is also fundamental to the oppression of young people.
All of this oppression is rooted in the material conditions and social relations that shape our lives. The main productive work of capitalism is carried out in the factory, mine and office. But the vast amount of work that must be done to get today's workers back to work the next day and to nurture the workforce of tomorrow is carried out in the family home. Domestic work is done at no cost to capitalism. And in the isolation of separate families, the ideology of discipline and obedience is instilled in the future generation.