Liberateeducate
20th January 2010, 19:02
Where are you from, whats the leftist scene there like?
left coast of USA, I prefer to not say what state.
What branch of leftism do you subscribe to?
Still debating this, I've teetered from Anarchism to socialism to communism, definitely a leftist. Enjoy reading Marx/Engels, but when I found Kropotkins, Berkmans, Goldmans work, I became increasingly interested in anarchism
How did you become a leftist?
Essentially I grew up poor, lived with my grandmother due to my mother/fathers addictions, self-destructive behaviors, and overall apathy towards their children. Lived, and still live in a small mobile home with her, while i pursue a degree in Education.
My life existed much of working/ going to school from age 12 on. I had worked 2 different full-time jobs before graduating highschool, and continuously found myself having to hide my class background to everyone. The schools I went to I was seen as a rebel, poor kid, future prison inmate, or future drug addict. A majority of the kids I went to highschool with especially, were middle class/upper class. This is where i realized how different I was from a many people due to class. After High school I had an image of helping other youth like myself, and I really had no motivation to go to college until I had one teacher who pushed me to pursue education.
Through my studies in education, I deeply mixed my free-time of reading marxist/ anarchist literature with my school studies about educational theory/ social history of america/ and world history.
I have been and still am looking to find avenues in which I can transform the current education system, so disenfranchised youth don't feel the need to ascribe to the bourgeois values and forget their troubled past in order to gain acceptance into society.
I have always felt that school wanted to strip me of my familial problems and make them unimportant and let them implement sets of values that were foreign to me, this is both k-12 and college level. But, to me that's degrading, all the lived experiences I have had and things i have seen, of poverty, domestic abuse, drug abuse, low wage work, to me are all symptoms of an economic system that needs a transformation. And I see A set of values that go along with that economic system which allow people to sit and feel like the world is their oyster as they drink bottled water, while others are forced to sleep on the streets.
My interests include, alternative education alternatives, Marxist/anarchist critiques of education and education policy, and always social justice/ revolution.
And some of the writers who I enjoy on these topics are Paulo Friere, Peter Mclaren, and Mike Cole
left coast of USA, I prefer to not say what state.
What branch of leftism do you subscribe to?
Still debating this, I've teetered from Anarchism to socialism to communism, definitely a leftist. Enjoy reading Marx/Engels, but when I found Kropotkins, Berkmans, Goldmans work, I became increasingly interested in anarchism
How did you become a leftist?
Essentially I grew up poor, lived with my grandmother due to my mother/fathers addictions, self-destructive behaviors, and overall apathy towards their children. Lived, and still live in a small mobile home with her, while i pursue a degree in Education.
My life existed much of working/ going to school from age 12 on. I had worked 2 different full-time jobs before graduating highschool, and continuously found myself having to hide my class background to everyone. The schools I went to I was seen as a rebel, poor kid, future prison inmate, or future drug addict. A majority of the kids I went to highschool with especially, were middle class/upper class. This is where i realized how different I was from a many people due to class. After High school I had an image of helping other youth like myself, and I really had no motivation to go to college until I had one teacher who pushed me to pursue education.
Through my studies in education, I deeply mixed my free-time of reading marxist/ anarchist literature with my school studies about educational theory/ social history of america/ and world history.
I have been and still am looking to find avenues in which I can transform the current education system, so disenfranchised youth don't feel the need to ascribe to the bourgeois values and forget their troubled past in order to gain acceptance into society.
I have always felt that school wanted to strip me of my familial problems and make them unimportant and let them implement sets of values that were foreign to me, this is both k-12 and college level. But, to me that's degrading, all the lived experiences I have had and things i have seen, of poverty, domestic abuse, drug abuse, low wage work, to me are all symptoms of an economic system that needs a transformation. And I see A set of values that go along with that economic system which allow people to sit and feel like the world is their oyster as they drink bottled water, while others are forced to sleep on the streets.
My interests include, alternative education alternatives, Marxist/anarchist critiques of education and education policy, and always social justice/ revolution.
And some of the writers who I enjoy on these topics are Paulo Friere, Peter Mclaren, and Mike Cole