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[-] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Marxism teaches us to question everything to see if they serve the working class or just maintain power.

But this power itself could very well be working class power. Maintaining such power would not be a problem, and indeed should be the goal of socialist education.

When I say ‘challenge power structures,’ I mean education should help people understand class struggle and how to improve society, not just obey the system blindly.

Again, teaching children to blindly obey authority figures is not something you can accuse Chinese society of doing without actually compiling and analysing data/evidence.

This isn’t about imposing some ‘Euro-centric’ idea but asking if education is helping build socialism or just keeping things the same. It’s an universal issue.

Universalism itself is a rather euro-centric idea. The European colonists were eager to declare their ideas as universal and to apply them to other societies.

The only way to actually address issues in Chinese society is to first investigate into specific details in Chinese societies. Making general claims/questions is not helpful. Especially not when they are made against a country with one of the richest surviving marxist traditions.

this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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