Remy Rose rated Salt Rising Bread: 5 stars
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Salt Rising Bread by Genevieve Bardwell, Susan Ray Brown
In the universe of breads, salt rising bread stands alone. There is nothing else remotely like it, in flavor, personality …
She/they. I like knitting, math, and uplifting the proletariat.
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In the universe of breads, salt rising bread stands alone. There is nothing else remotely like it, in flavor, personality …
This short course in anarchism did not stick, however, even though I greatly respected Sostre, because I did not understand the theoretical concepts and associated them with white radicals. I just could not believe any society could exist without a central government, politicians and a bureaucracy. I guess I was like most people who hear this for the first time.
— Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's …
This phenomenon, in addition to their class position, perhaps explains why so many professionals adhere to anti-dialogical action. Whatever the specialty that brings them into contact with the people, they are almost unshakably convinced that it is their mission to “give” the latter their knowledge and techniques. They see themselves as “promotors” of the people. Their programs of action (which might have been prescribed by any good theorist of oppressive action) include their own objectives, their own convictions, and their own preoccupations. They do not listen to the people, but instead plan to teach them how to “cast off the laziness which creates underdevelopment.” To these professionals, it seems absurd to consider the necessity of respecting the “view of the world” held by the people.
Ouch! As someone who works in a public library makerspace, this hits a little too close for comfort... I do try to just empower the patrons to do whatever it is they already want to do, using the equipment at our disposal. But... I can't deny I also silently judge them for making things that I think are "silly" or wasteful. And I definitely have a lot of my training for the equipment memorized down to a script, too.
It happens that peace cannot be bought; peace is experienced in solidarity and loving acts, which cannot be incarnated in oppression.
I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love.
Paulo Freire: You must meet people where they're at. Education isn't a one-way transfer, but a dialogue. You must always pair the abstract with the concrete, they are meaningless without each other.
Also Paulo Freire: Proceeds to spend an entire chapter using the most abstract language I've ever heard outside a phenomenology textbook
... Because the animals’ activity is an extension of themselves, the results of that activity are also inseparable from themselves: animals can neither set objectives nor infuse their transformation of nature with any significance beyond itself. Moreover, the “decision” to perform this activity belongs not to them but to their species. Animals are, accordingly, fundamentally “beings in themselves.” Unable to decide for themselves, unable to objectify either themselves or their activity, lacking objectives which they themselves have set, living “submerged” in a world to which they can give no meaning, lacking a “tomorrow” and a “today” because they exist in an overwhelming present, animals are ahistorical. Their ahistorical life does not occur in the “world,” taken in its strict meaning; for the animal, the world does not constitute a “not-I” which could set him apart as an “I.” ... Animals are not challenged by the configuration which confronts them; they are merely stimulated. Their life is not one of risk-taking, for they are not aware of taking risks. Risks are not challenges perceived upon reflection, but merely “noted” by the signs which indicate them; they accordingly do not require decision-making responses. Consequently, animals cannot commit themselves. Their ahistorical condition does not permit them to “take on” life. Because they do not “take it on,” they cannot construct it; and if they do not construct it, they cannot transform its configuration. Nor can they know themselves to be destroyed by life, for they cannot expand their “prop” world into a meaningful, symbolic world which includes culture and history. ... Even in the forest, they remain “beings-in-themselves,” as animal-like there as in the zoo.
This guy just really loves talking shit about animals. He seems to think humans are something else entirely. EDIT: don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good stuff in here, this just stuck out to me as like pretty egregious lol.
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The utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought …
Despite being set in an alternate history, this book really felt like an extremely realistic depiction of everything going on with the left these days. It's pretty brutal and sad, honestly. I really wanted it to end on some utopian note, but it ends in an extremely probable way instead. Maybe that's more important.