Tag: neoliberalism
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The Body Politick
Time to rustle some feathers again! It is completely redundant to express online that sexuality is a wonderful thing! No matter your sexual orientation, sexuality has a place in growing up, reserving a nice niche in memory lane in your time exploring. It has to be admitted that exploration of one’s own sexuality is completely…
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The “Case” for Students – On Common Questionable Rhetoric in the Educational Environment.
“What case are you being assigned next year?”“What case have you got?” “Oh, my case is giving me trouble!” … You would imagine being either in a forensic department or in a luggage shop listening to these things as an LSE. The fact that we have normalized such discourse in our everyday dialogue is truly…
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On Value, Profit and Overlap
The textbook definition of socialism typically starts that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. The textbook definition of capitalism, in the meantime, starts from the fact that trade and industry are controlled by private entities rather than the state.Going by those definitions alone…
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A Socialist Criticises Socialism – Marx in the Mirror
…Oh my! Betrayer! Crucify him! Um, no. And yes I am aware that that is the wrong Marx in the featured image. But that is just to drive my point home. I find the healthiest sort of identity is one that continually questions and criticizes itself for clarity of ideas. I find that, in fact,…
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The Meanness of Production
Any good socialist would argue the point of socialism is the seizure of the means of production.
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My Student, My “Other”
An interesting insight came up in the school playground not too long ago. It is extremely interesting how even within communities, even in schools, the adults or people born in different generations keep thinking of one another as “other.” Including teachers and their students. The structure of a school does raise a particular red flag.…
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Why do I need to learn these?
How many times have we heard it from our children? What is the point of Religion in our syllabus? Of Literature, history, art, music, drama, geography… I am not going to avoid being called a nerd after today. Heck, let’s just do away with them. After all, the MEA (Malta Employers Association for those not…
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