CMV: Politics is pointless because it's largely, almost completely, determined by money and special interests.

First, I think you should talk to your professors/mentors at school. I'm sure they believe in the reasons such studies are important, and will be better informed than us.

Second,

state-capitalistic interests ≠ popular interests

is true at the moment. But I think you're entering these studies when the pendulum is swung at the far end. This goes back and forth, from Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel - > trustbusters and labor unions -> Enron and deregulation - > tighter regulation on stock market control discouraging fraud -> Trump bowing to corporations to reopen offshore drilling, privatized prisons lobbying for harsher penal codes, etc. etc. It's bad right now. But it's always been bad before it gets a little better. We don't need something replacing nation-states and free markets yet; we just need more responsible leaders. Hence, schools that teach ethical political science. That's what I think.

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