These policies went hand in hand with cultivating a layer of black entrepreneurs, academics and officials to preside over the ever-worsening conditions in America's minority neighborhoods. When the U-M Law School suit was first filed, one defender of affirmative action, Professor Bunyan Bryant, stated explicitly that he did not support social equality, but sought to ensure that minorities get an equal share of the privileges enjoyed by the economic elite. Such proponents of racial policies want to improve the position of minority businesses, professionals and academics, not the broad masses. Simply that schools such as the University of Michigan serve as the training ground for managers, corporate leaders and elite professionals, and that a section of minorities should be part in this group. The struggle for social equality Such comments underscore the chasm between the response of liberals and of socialists to social inequality.
Socialists seek a genuine equality of conditions of life.
It is not to integrate the ruling class, but to abolish it. From a socialist standpoint, education has a fundamental democratic significance. It is not merely a means of access to wealth and status, but a goal in itself, a necessary part of the development of a fully human personality. Every human being should be educated to the level required for life in a modern, technologically advanced society, which means college-level or advanced technical training for nearly everyone. We therefore reject affirmative action, which is based on the premise that some sections of the population must be denied access to higher education, and simply argues that this deprivation should be rationed out differently than at present.