We Don’t Need a “Plethora of Tactics”, We Need a Climate Strategy: An anarchist-communist’s response to Freedom News
We Don’t Need a “Plethora of Tactics”, We Need a Climate Strategy: An anarchist-communist’s response to Freedom News
Great article, but one of the articles it cites early on (the one about breaking out of the activist mold) has a line that baffles me.
"The division of labour operates, for example, in medicine or education — instead of healing and bringing up kids being common knowledge and tasks that everyone has a hand in, this knowledge becomes the specialised property of doctors and teachers — experts that we must rely on to do these things for us. Experts jealously guard and mystify the skills they have. This keeps people separated and disempowered and reinforces hierarchical class society."
- Andrew X
Is he really suggesting the abolition of doctors and teachers? Is he aware of how absurdly hard it is to be a doctor or a teacher?
People with pedagogical or medical expertise will always be needed, but not in the current format.
Teachers and doctors - as they exist currently - are the product of a factory model of education and healthcare. They are hard jobs because they are poorly fitted to the complex needs of real people, who are not products on an assembly line.
It is that structure that alienates us from our own education and caring for one another. That is what is being addressed here. There might be "teachers" and "doctors" in a world without this factory model, but they likely wouldn't be full time specialised roles.
We need solar cells.