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Description
Our Education is Not Liberating is a newly released book that poses one of the most important questions to the youth of capitalist countries today: Is our education liberating?
Through its rigorous analysis of the function, historical character, form and content of capitalist “education,” today it answers with an emphatic no. Our Education is Not Liberating breaks down the nature of education, relentlessly subjecting its content and pedagogical form to revolutionary analysis. The book also decisively questions what it means for something to be “liberating,” opposing liberal, postmodernist and dualist distortions of liberation.
No aspect of capitalist “education” is left unturned — from its social policy to its teachers, from its examination forms to its moral “education,” from its imperialist apologia to its dogmatism.
Attentively investigated in the book is that of current social sciences “education” — a site of incorrigible metaphysics, distortion and chauvinism to ensnare the progressive youth into regressive tendencies. The book concisely traces how the underlying philosophical errors of the capitalist “education” system allow the most egregious crimes of Anglo-American imperialism to be sidestepped and the possibility of an alternative denied.
The most important aspect of the book is that it is a guide to social practice and progress towards the New. It is not created, as many books are these days, by the self-imagined prophets of “liberation” and “progress” — those who write for the sake of stroking their ego or lining their pockets. Instead, Our Education is Not Liberating is written to be accessible as possible to the revolutionary youth of today, not just in Britain but all around the world. It contains supplementary reading group questions to help concretise and elaborate key concepts to the particular conditions of the reader. The book is imbued with the vital social investigation and perceptions from progressive students and was not thought up within the author’s four walls. It models not only what a liberating education system under socialism would look like, but also how the revolutionary students and workers are to arrive there through their historic struggle against the Old.