Abstract
The combination of market criteria, the state and bureaucracy in education has placed academic freedom under new kinds of pressure from all sides. One effect is the abandonment of it. Another is self-censorship by teachers and researchers. Although academics are in an uneven process of joining the proletariat, they still need academic freedom for the sake of their kind of work. Academic freedom is an historic form of freedom that is changing but until a different kind of protection is found that will better serve education including research, it is needed. Using Marx,1 I attempt to outline why education and its social circumstances relate in the way that they do. This in turn may help to explain the need for academic freedom today. 1Robin Small, in his Marx and Education (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) demonstrates that Marx had a theory of education.
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