Hello from a lonely teacher

[Psuedo reality prevails]

Hello Revlefties

I have dropped by your forum a few times without registering, and since becoming an active blogger, I thought I might introduce myself and my blogs.

The main blog specifically relates to the upcoming ANZAC centenary coming up next year in NZ, where I live. I write about New Zealanders such as Archibald Baxter and Robin Hyde, who provide us with texts which allow a critical engagement with ideology of "remembrance" which confronts us today. I also post more generally on the topic of WW1, with movie reviews and links to Marxist sites / pacifist sites / other critical sites.

OK - not allowed to post links yet!! Please google "One hundred years of trenches" if you are interested.

My other blog, which I have just started, will be for anything else I might write which doesn't fit under the WW1 heading. So far just one post, relating the misery of teaching statistics to high school students, with a Marxist twist.

Please google "Psuedo Reality Prevails" if you are interested.

As for where I fit into the maelstrom of various different versions of Marxism, I'm still working on figuring that out myself. At the moment, I am just some kind of Marxist. I'm currently half way through reading Serge's Memoirs of a Revolutionary, which I'm really enjoying. New Zealand in 2014 is the basis of my version of reality though, not Russia in 1919. That statement will be enough for now.

[Q]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

Never heard of the acronym ANZAC before. There more you know ;)

[blake 3:17]

Welcome! I'd never heard of Archibald Baxter before but he sounds very interesting.

[exeexe]

Welcome. What do you mean by lonely? Are you like the only revolutionary/Marxist teacher in your school or something like that?

[motion denied]

Serge's memoirs are awesome. Welcome.

[Psuedo reality prevails]

I've just started work at a school, so I'm still getting to know people. But what I meant - as a Maths teacher, I feel fairly isolated. With a small number of notable exceptions, most maths teachers do tend to be either conservative or else very conformist. But I'm not really lonely, that was just hyperbole.

[Skyhilist]

Welcome. I have to say I'm pretty interested in hearing anything about something that involves statistics and Marxism both at once.

[Lily Briscoe]

Hi. You're username is totally spelled wrong.

[Kaysone]

I am a teacher, too. No need to be lonely, my friend.