Tag: socialism
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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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Opium of the People
Why would a socialist such as myself choose to be in any way religious? Did not Marx famously describe religion as the “Opium of the people”? Well…yes and no. In Context, the statement was issued by Marx from a structuralist-functionalist perspective meaning that it is like a balm for the oppressed to find meaning in…
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Politics of Confrontation
Evil is not in confrontation but in forcing sameness and manufacturing consent. Why?
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