Who is afraid of Karl Marx
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:15 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QjgLIrEnc
Amusing video on scarying young students about Karl Marx.
Amusing video on scarying young students about Karl Marx.
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The curriculum wanted to add slavery to the list of things which would be taught at the Year 2 level and was seeking a term that would be age appropriate for that age group. I think that's important context to that specific Texas instance.“The topic of slavery is not currently addressed in the 2nd Grade curriculum; this work is meant to address that deficiency,” he said.
Stephanie Alvarez, a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a member of the group, said she was did not attend the meetings when the language was crafted because of personal issues, but that the language was “extremely disturbing.” She would not comment any further because of her role in the work group, she said.
Part of the proposed social studies curriculum standards outlines that students should “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”
Annette Gordon-Reed, a history professor at Harvard University, said using “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery threatens to blur out what actually occurred during that time in history. There is no reason to use the proposed language, she said.
“Young kids can grasp the concept of slavery and being kidnapped into it,” Gordon-Reed said. “The African slave trade is unlike anything that had or has happened, the numbers and distance.”
If language like what the group of Texas educators propose is accepted and taught to children, it means the country is moving in the wrong direction, she said.
“Tell children the truth. They can handle it,” she said.
Texas is in the process of developing a new curriculum for social studies, a process that happens about every decade to update what children should be learning in Texas’ 8,866 public schools.
I am not a Marxist. But unlike 99% of people who opine about Marxism on discussion boards, blogs, and in political discourse elsewhere, I do actually know something about Marxism, because (partly out of interest, and partly for professional reasons) I have read some of the works of Marx and Engels, and also of those who claimed to be applying and developing Marxism in political action, such as Lenin, Stalin, and Mao Zedong. I have also read a number of works by authors critical of Marxism, and on the whole I think that their criticisms are telling. So just to get it out of the way: I do not think that Marx's views are correct. (Of course, the things called 'Marx's views' developed and changed greatly during his lifetime.)hauslern wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:15 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QjgLIrEnc
Amusing video on scarying young students about Karl Marx
Karl Marx The Poverty of Philosophy Chapter Two: The Metaphysics of Political EconomyM. Proudhon the economist understands very well that men make cloth, linen, or silk materials in definite relations of production. But what he has not understood is that these definite social relations are just as much produced by men as linen, flax, etc. Social relations are closely bound up with productive forces. In acquiring new productive forces men change their mode of production; and in changing their mode of production, in changing the way of earning their living, they change all their social relations. The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist.
Yup, it's for real:Physics Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 1:09 amOn the street in Trier where Marx was born, the pedestrian crossing lights show little red or green silhouettes with Marx's famously bearded face, instead of the usual "walk" and "don't walk" symbols. It's not a joke—I've been there and seen them.
I thought the bit was trivial(babel of political propaganda) but it brought up next for me a mildly amusing Ted talk about David and Goliath.