Brief: Antifascist Woodshed 3: The Kids are Alright
But the parents? Meh.
When fascism rises, and some young people are drawn into its orbit, because everyone from Jordan Peterson to Andrew Tate has figured out how to exploit resentment at the failures of capitalism, we have an opportunity to give our kids a lot more than moralistic calls for a return to normalcy, compliance, warnings about screen time, striving to be better students, doing more sports, and not making too much of a ruckus (as Marco Rubio calls it).
The kind of parenting that limits itself to restoring the status quo for younger people in an age of fascism is not engaged parenting.
It’s not enough to be a good boy or girl. Antifascism takes more than that.
In this Part One, Matthew previews our main feed discussion of Adolescence (coming this Thursday), parses a speech by Gareth Southgate, wonders why Jonathan Haidt knows nothing about gaming, and remembers Sophie Scholl.
Show Notes
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions
Death toll since Israel's aggression on Gaza on October 7 rises to 31,819 (March, 2024)
Austerity Has Always Been a Project to Empower Capital at the Expense of Workers
It's Not Them; It's Us: Thoughts on the Show Adolescence
Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Taps Into the Latest Moral Panic
UK government's own estimate says welfare cuts to push 250,000 into poverty | Reuters
55: Games Against Humanity (w/ Thi Nguyen) — Conspirituality
207: Gaming Realities (w/Thi Nguyen) — Conspirituality
Reminder to the media: Research video games before reporting on them
Out of the Ruins:The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces
Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader
The People's Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State
Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom
TRUST KIDS! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
Refusing Complicity: The Bravery of Sophie Scholl - Radical Tea Towel
Sophie Scholl and the youth resistance against the Nazis – DW – 02/22/2023
The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
The politics of The Sound of Music | Peter Levine
The Edelweiss Pirates: A Story of Freedom, Love and Life
The Child and Its Enemies | The Anarchist Library —Emma Goldman
DECLARATION OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS—Janusz Korczak
The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak - Betty Jean Lifton
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Remember the Mac-Paps - rabble.ca
The Canadians In The Spanish Civil War
