This means something quite important-the bourgeois teacher student relationship is broken down and the educators, who are also constantly learning, take on the role of a fellow militant, a trusted facilitator. The principal aspect of this forms the identity of teacher-student and student-teacher.
Education happens anywhere in the most loose sense of the word human beings are always learning, but they are not always learning well or always learning the correct things.įor Maoists the method of education is very practical and is based on the “learn then teach” formula, making all students teachers in one aspect and all teachers students in one aspect. This demands a brief examination of education generally and Communist education specifically. We disagree, and insist on maintaining connection to the living movement of the people and revolutionaries, having dispensed with this faulty form of “political education.” Our internet-based siblings, those who insist that they can “study Communism” online have gone so far as to suggest that platforms like Reddit are “indispensable” to “political education”. Since this is not the most important topic, we will keep this short.įor starters, what is political education from the Communist point of view? First, it is what is learned in class combat, in the trenches of the people and in taking up these struggles earnestly and learning from one’s mistakes second, it is through collective and individual study of the important theory and history, of the experience of the ICM. Due to this persisting trend of self-proclaimed but totally inactive and disconnected “Maoists” and “principally Maoists”, we are compelled to issue this open statement, after all we would not want to be “dismissive”.
This indicates and confirms in the sharpest way all of our concerns and criticism regarding the irresponsible and ignorant idea that one can learn anything at all about Communism by interacting on such websites, sites riddled with the police and all sorts of pretenders, without a doubt, a place which lacks any verifiable or trustworthy sources. Instead of having the principles and common sense to keep private correspondence or disagreements private, some of these social media-dependent comrades have, true to form, spewed out their thoughts onto their preferred social media platforms, in this case accusing us of being “dismissive”. We declined and stated extensively our reasoning behind our decision, going so far as to recommend that their internet projects be abandoned for something useful. Published on ATTN: Listen to our new episodes at sesh.Some time back, a group of social media users asked our Editorial Board to help them moderate an online forum. Struggle Session’s tracks The Matrix Resurrections
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