I’m still in Uni, but I’ve been contemplating becoming a high school (A levels and GCSE for you brits) teacher. I was curious what folk’s thoughts were on anti-authoritarians, anarchists, radicals etc. in the education field? The knee jerk reaction of most “anarychists” is to attack anyone that’s a teacher, because well, [...]
July 8, 2008
Categories: Everyday Life, The Rev, Trade unions . Tags: Class Struggle, education, Organizing, teenagers, Unions . Author: Joe Hill's Ghost . Comments: 1 Comment
Over the past couple of days I’ve been reading Mike Ely’s “9 letters to our comrades.” It’s a long polemical response to Mike’s former comrades at the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). It’s real interesting stuff, not because it offers any new and amazing insights into the task of revolution and building a new society, but [...]
June 28, 2008
Categories: Culture, Leninists, Nutty Communists, The Rev . Tags: Bob Avakian, Cults, Kasama, Leninism, Maoism, Mike Ely, Revolutionary Communist Party . Author: Joe Hill's Ghost . Comments: 3 Comments
I think it’s funny how everyone pays so much attention to the stock market and yet we know so little about it. The stock market is not an indicator of the health of the economy, not for real people at least. The stock market is an indicator of the speculative investments of a [...]
June 27, 2008
Categories: Class Theory, Economics, The Rev . Tags: blue collar, Economics, journalism, Middle Class, speculation, stock market . Author: Joe Hill's Ghost . Comments: 1 Comment
Well I just finished talking to a friend of mine and as usual he proclaimed his inherent rationality for knowing that “people are apathetic and stupid, and just follow whatever leader suits them.” Apparently I’m a naïve idealist for thinking that the revolution will ever happen and that collective struggle can change people’s lives. This [...]
June 22, 2008
Categories: Philosophy, The Rev . Tags: Camus, Organizing, Philosophy . Author: Joe Hill's Ghost . Comments: Leave a Comment