I have a new appreciation for communist literacy campaigns. They're not just the morally correct thing to do, they're creating a pathway to solidarity and shared experience of humanity* for people who have maybe never been able to conceive of the world that way. Treating knowledge, culture, and history as 'optional' and distributing is based on 'willingness to pay' is such a grotesque way of organizing society. The treatment of education as merely an instrumental good to neo-liberal 'productivity' is definitely part of what radicalized me - but of course that runs all the way down. What good is free higher education to someone who can't read? To someone who can't afford the time and luxury of not working long enough to actively learn?
*autocorrect FUCKED me. Autocorrect FUCKED ME SO HARD.
I have a new appreciation for communist literacy campaigns. They're not just the morally correct thing to do, they're creating a pathway to solidarity and shared experience of humanity* for people who have maybe never been able to conceive of the world that way. Treating knowledge, culture, and history as 'optional' and distributing is based on 'willingness to pay' is such a grotesque way of organizing society. The treatment of education as merely an instrumental good to neo-liberal 'productivity' is definitely part of what radicalized me - but of course that runs all the way down. What good is free higher education to someone who can't read? To someone who can't afford the time and luxury of not working long enough to actively learn?
*autocorrect FUCKED me. Autocorrect FUCKED ME SO HARD.
The first thing I thought about too was all the poverty reduction videos I’ve seen. Good stuff