The article insists youth responses to state training must be grounded within an analysis of class relations, and a recognition of their clear-eyed awareness of the futility not only of their training, but also the work they will eventually enter. In this sense and in opposition to cultural explanations youth's resistance to training constitutes part of working class struggle and must be understood as historically constituted ‘in and against’ the state.
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