"Useful" *has* to be "useful TO a given someone AT a given time FOR a given purpose. You don't seem aware of the first steps necessary for analysis. Just because you teach Engels at a business school doesn't mean you understand it≥

I teach at a business school and I now have concerns about the students coming out of U of T. Looking at the title of week 2 is frightening. Has this guy never read Adam Smith? Never heard of weavers lung? Never read any history of labour?

Needless to say, the same goes for your notion of "apolitical."