The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
academic autonomy and class relations: It is necessary to construct the system of relations between the educational system and the other sub-systems of any society, specifying those relations by reference to the structure of class relations, in order to perceive that the relative autonomy of the educational system is always the counterpart of a dependence hidden to a greater or lesser extent by the practices and ideology authorized by that autonomy. To put it another way, to a given degree and type of autonomy, i.e., to a determinate form of correspondence between the essential function and the external functions, there always correspond a determinate type and degree of dependence on the other systems, i.e., in the last analysis, on the structure of class relations.