By Kyle Olson
Saturday, January 12, 2013
At least the teachers of Occupy Oakland are finally being
honest about their political agenda.
They’re openly calling for an all-out abolition of
capitalism.
The Occupy Oakland Education Committee – comprised of
public school teachers from the Oakland, California school district – has
renamed its publication “ClassRoom Struggle” and its platform TEACH, which
stands for “Transform Education, Abolish Capitalism and Heal.”
Finally the radical teachers have acknowledged what we’ve
been saying all along: they want to end capitalism and replace it with a
socialist economy, quite possibly enforced by a totalitarian form of
government.
And what, precisely, is their strategy? They tell us that
goal number one is to abolish “capitalist schools.”
“What we are calling to abolish is not education but
rather capitalism,” the group wrote in a statement. “We see the struggle to
abolish capitalist schools as one place where we can begin to chip away at
capitalism’s grasp on our society. Capitalist tendencies run deep into the
structure and politics of schools.
Operated the proper way, these schools have a great deal
of potential for left-wing causes, according to the Oakland group.
“While public schools have served a role in developing
white supremacist, capitalist and imperialist ideology and social structure
(for example through segregated schools, tracked programs, mandated pledge of
allegiance, etc.), they have also been key sites of struggle and served as
assets for movements of working class students of color and other youth
struggles,” the group wrote.
The last part is the scariest. They clearly want to
encourage rebellious behavior among young student and recruit them into their
anti-American movement.
The teachers have an absolute right to subscribe to any
silly political theory they choose. That’s one of the great things about living
in the country they hate. But many teachers in Oakland and throughout the U.S.
have been using their classrooms as “assets” for their radical movements. They
seek to brainwash youngsters into hating America and mistrusting the economic
system that has given our nation a very high standard of living.
This proves what domestic terrorist-turned-professor Bill
Ayers recently said: Radical leftist teachers have a great deal of influence in
our schools, and they should use it to further the revolutionary cause.
America will continue its slide toward socialism as long
as radical activists like Ayers and the Oakland teachers are allowed to use our
taxpayer-funded schools as bully pulpits and recruiting zones for their
movement.
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