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My English teach is knowingly misinterpreting Animal Farm to the class
He was claiming that Animal Farm is about how communism could never work and equating it with Cuba, China and the former USSR. I debunked him and explained how it was a criticism of the USSR's corruption and how Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War and was not anti-soviet not anti communist. So them he basically told me to stop confusing people with the facts. This is disappointing considering that up to this point he has been pretty unbiased compared to most teachers.
Keep calling his/her bullshit.
"We have seen: a social revolution possesses a total point of view because – even if it is confined to only one factory district – it represents a protest by man against a dehumanized life" - Marx
"But to push ahead to the victory of socialism we need a strong, activist, educated proletariat, and masses whose power lies in intellectual culture as well as numbers." - Luxemburg
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Next class bring in literature explaining how Orwell was in POUM and was a communist himself who was just anti-Stalinist. Before the bell rings and he starts talking to the class, go up to the front and explain it to everybody, and cite specific valid sources and places where students can confirm that. Something to that effect should work nicely, and should also really piss him off
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Oh god please do this and tell us how the teacher reacted
Yeah.
NO! Most students don't actually care and therefore this'll be embarrassing. Don't ever preach politics.Before the bell rings and he starts talking to the class, go up to the front and explain it to everybody, and cite specific valid sources and places where students can confirm that. Something to that effect should work nicely, and should also really piss him off
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Not just tell, film it
I went through this in tenth grade with a teacher who was using it to justify his racism, islamophobia, and use it as an anticommunist book. I debated with the class about presenting the facts I knew and he just made my grade suffer and I got called retard. He used the Cyrillic letters CCCP, English letters because Slavs are apparently too dumb to make acronyms. I hated that fucking man.
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
You can fucking say that again haha!!!
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
Put a dunce cap on him and march him on a rope through the halls. Hand out water balloons filled with piss to fellow class mates - encourage them to throw them at him. Call it Cultural Revolution.
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"To belittle the socialist ideology in anyway, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology." What Is To Be Done? V.I. Lenin
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I would honestly continue to fight him on it. That isn't just shitty politics, it's bad literary interpretation; if you're claiming that things in the story mean other things outside of it and then deny the context in which it is written in, you're doing it wrong.
I see what you're saying, but I don't think that's something that should be encouraged. Its cruel punishment for someone being an idiot. I've had shitty stuff like that threatened to me for being openly communist and being atheist in high school. That and it'd be alienating to people who would other wise lean left
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
Damn, school has really changed a lot in the last 10 years. You'd have got your head kicked in at my school for doing that.Next class bring in literature explaining how Orwell was in POUM and was a communist himself who was just anti-Stalinist. Before the bell rings and he starts talking to the class, go up to the front and explain it to everybody, and cite specific valid sources and places where students can confirm that. Something to that effect should work nicely, and should also really piss him off
Teachers are just normal people like everyone else. Just have a private word with him and explain your grievances to him. Maybe you can present him with some literature or quotes and stuff. But do it privately rather than embarrassing yourself while trying embarrass him. That ain't gonna work. Treat your teacher with respect and they're more likely to return the gesture. What is interesting about his reaction though, is that if you are going to be tested on this then he may have been supplying you with the correct answers to the test. Rather than being personally ideologically biased. Just ask him honestly.
Your English teacher is a fucking moron.
Don't surprise me, I had plenty of moronic teachers too, including one that thought Hitler and Stalin were allies
BTW take a look at Cuba's socialism. Appears to have worked out for them. They have the highest standard of living in all of Latin America, lowest crime rate, and best health care. How come you don't see that in 'Murica where it's the "land of the free"?
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"I'm tired of this "isn't humanity neat," bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."-Bill Hicks.
I feel the Bern and I need penicillin
George Orwell isn't even that great of a writer as high as the pedestal he's put on.
I know some of you won't like me saying that, but he's looked upon as this prophet for 1984, and I get so sick of hearing about this shit. Libertariantards use 1984 to make examples of Communism even though they can't see the contradiction in themselves cause capitalism is where it can also occur.
Why does Orwell get all the praise, but Marx is the one we're supposed to be afraid of, even though shit like Class Warfare is more realistic than some idiot screaming how 'da gubahmen is listenin' yo!'
Orwell may have stuck with Communist/Leftist publishers but that don't mean he was on the left side by any means.
If anything he's an imperialist apologist. I found this a lot in his work. Just look at how he describes Catholics with pure hatred, or better yet is it a coincidence he wrote mean things about the Irish and even named the main villain in 1984 O'Brien?
Sure he might be an OK writer, but he had his flaws just as much as any other man and that's all I am pointing out. I don't care if you like him or not.
Yo, I'm gonna knee cap the next person that tries to covertly put 'tard' in to Libertarian or Liberal.
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Come little children, I'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment, come little children, the times come to play, here in my garden of magic.
"I'm tired of this "isn't humanity neat," bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."-Bill Hicks.
I feel the Bern and I need penicillin
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Its just a joke.
"If conquest constituted a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them." The Nationalisation of the Land Karl Marx
"To belittle the socialist ideology in anyway, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology." What Is To Be Done? V.I. Lenin
I reported it. I hate that so much.
I know I was just adding on to it, my apologies.
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
They might not care but at least they'll be less likely to believe the wrong thing.
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If the teacher is being an ahistorical douchebag, they deserve it.
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