VOLUME 4(6) • 2016
FEATURE EDITORIAL: NEOLIBERAL POLITICS AND THE DEAD BODIES OF CHILDREN
ABSTRACT. What happens to young people in a flawed democracy when thinking is eviscerated, and disdained in favor of raw emotion? What happens when political discourse functions as a bunker rather than a bridge? What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality give way to the naked instrum..
REVOLUTION AND EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. Denied the right to recognize patterns of violence and their relationship to class and specifically to the capitalist mode of production through an institutionalized historical amnesia, we live our lives as mere passengers on a train that stops at death’s door. In the self-proclaimed great..
THE POVERTY OF (POST)HUMANITIES
ABSTRACT. Since the collapse in the early 1970s of the class compromise that had structured labor relations in the United States after the Second World War, the humanities have been undergoing changes that have transformed them into versions of (post)humanities – humanities without humanism. These c..
A COMMUNIST PEDAGOGY OF BECOMING: CENTERING MARX’S ‘GENERAL LAW OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION’
ABSTRACT. The following essay seeks to contribute to Marxist educational theory by offering a systematic analysis of Marx’s (1867/1967) ‘General law of capitalist accumulation’ as outlined in Chapter 25 of the first volume of Capital. Underscoring this analysis is the beginning of a systematic exami..
CLASS STRUGGLE IN CULTURAL FORMATION IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES: A FOCUS ON THE THEORETICAL IMPORTANCE OF ANTONIO GRAMSCI AND THE ORGANIC INTELLECTUALISM OF RUSSELL BRAND
ABSTRACT. The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation – something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument that educative strategies for class strug..
WOMEN AND REVOLUTION: MARX AND THE DIALECTIC
ABSTRACT. This article argues that Marxism is inherently anti-sexist, anti-racist, and against all forms of exploitation and oppression. As a philosophy of revolution, Marxism is more than about economic restructuring but rather argues for the development of a new humanity based upon a class-less mo..
INSURRECTION, NOT INCLUSION: EDUCATION AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE
ABSTRACT. Critical educational theorists have recently begun to take up the notion of the ‘right to the city’ to understand and resist neoliberal attacks on education in the U.S. This process, however, has thus far not attended to the important debates taking place around what the right to the city ..
STUDENTS IN REVOLT: THE PEDAGOGICAL POTENTIAL OF STUDENT COLLECTIVE ACTION IN THE AGE OF THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY
ABSTRACT. This article examines how contemporary student movements are disrupting, opposing and displacing entrenched oppressive and dehumanizing reforms, practices and frames in today’s corporate academia. This work is divided in four sections. The first is an introduction to student movements and ..
TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION, CRITICAL EDUCATION, MARXIST EDUCATION: POSSIBILITIES AND ALTERNATIVES TO THE RESTRUCTURING OF EDUCATION IN GLOBAL NEOLIBERAL/NEOCONSERVATIVE TIMES
ABSTRACT. This paper briefly examines the context-specific paths and policies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism and the resistance to their depradations. While calling for activism within micro-, meso- and macro-social and political arenas, the paper focuses on activity within formal education in..
A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF THE DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE COMMONS FROM A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. Going beyond a traditional understanding of commons as land and resources, a knowledge commons involves collective, cumulative informal experience, scientific research, the arts, and procedural, practical information, often with economic implications. However, much confusion exists around ..
PREFIGURING ALTERNATIVE WORLDS: ORGANIC CRITICAL LITERACIES AND SOCIO-CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
ABSTRACT. This paper offers a vision of critical literacies that speak to education, revolution and the institutional arrangements of capitalism. We provide a path forward for educating within/against neoliberalism and for understanding the imperative to prefigure spaces and a language of possibilit..
IMPERIALISM AND RACIALISED WORLD CAPITALISM OR INTERCULTURAL TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SOCIALISM
ABSTRACT. In Cole, 2016, I paint a bleak and depressing scenario of racism on three continents. In this paper, I address the fundamental issue of how things might be different: specifically an intercultural twenty-first century socialism that is both antiracist and, in the Latin American context, in..