Introduction The use of the terms "social justice" and "equity" are often used by so-called progressive educators, but such references are often vague and, through such vagueness, fail to link up to the class nature of contemporary society--in particular the class power of employers and the exploitation and oppression of workers by that class. Equity … Continue reading Equity and Social Justice as Buzz Words Among Liberal and Social-democratic Educators
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The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle of Social Democrats or Social Reformers
John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), recently posted this on Facebook: John Clarke A FB friend put up a post that deals with the 'bullshit asymmetry principle.' This holds that 'the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.' … Continue reading The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle of Social Democrats or Social Reformers
Class Harmony and Social Reformism: The United Way as a Reformist Organization, Part Two
This is the continuation of a previous post. In the first post, I looked critically at the web site of the United Way Centraide Canada. The following post looks critically at one of its branch publications, Rebalancing the Opportunity Equation (May, 2019), by United Way Greater Toronto. The publication contains many implicit statements that illustrate … Continue reading Class Harmony and Social Reformism: The United Way as a Reformist Organization, Part Two
School Rhetoric: Ideological Use of the Concept of Social Justice, Part One
Social justice has now become a buzzword these days. There is social justice this and social justice that, here a social justice, there a social justice, everywhere a social justice. This buzzword forms the ideology of the social-democratic left, for example, as well as the conservative right. After all, who is against social justice? The … Continue reading School Rhetoric: Ideological Use of the Concept of Social Justice, Part One
The Abolitionary 