With the rapid urbanization of society, and the acceleration of the
pace of economic and social life, the need for other government-provided
services has increased and the number and variety of these has therefore
multiplied. Foremost among these services is education, which has
assumed a much enlarged role in the era of monopoly capitalism….child-rearing,
the responsibility for the care and socialization of children has become
increasingly institutionalized….In school, the child and the adolescent
practice what they will later be called upon to do as adults: the conformity
to routines, the manner in which they will be expected to snatch from the
fast-moving machinery their needs and wants (199).
Public health, postal, and many other government functions are similarly
expanded by the needs of an intricate and delicately balanced social structure
which has no means of social coordination or planning other than the internal
corporate planning of the monopolies that provide the skeletal structure
of the economy. And many of these “services,” such as prisons, police,
and “social work,” expand extraordinarily because of the embittered and
antagonistic social life of the cites (199-200).