But in a capitalist system, which is technocratic and not meritocratic, 21st century students are incredibly overburdened by testing and homework.
Of course: this is primarily a result of forcing competition via false scarcities in education and jobs forcing competition is what free market/neoliberal societies are built upon, of course. The CR recognised this and I relayed Han's detailing of the enormous explosion in rural school creation.
But Liberal Democratic supporters will insist that schools must remain dull and conservative with nihilistic claims such as: "School is just a way to make sheep; is really just child care, because both parents have to work in order to survive; societal masters are only interested in creating compliant cubicle drones, human robots for factory work, and subservient service industry slaves." I agree: in capitalist countries.
But in socialist countries, where power has been devolved to workers and away from the 1%/technocratic class, other educational policies ARE possible and ARE implemented. Because the Chinese Communist Party explicitly sought to reduce the influence of schoolteachers, and to reduce China's longstanding over-admiration for them, it is thus little wonder that schoolteachers across the West have zero interest in teaching the truth about the CR!
A Yellow Vest CR must include major educational reform:
"Exclusive book learning that used mainly the rote method was opposed. During the educational reforms, the concept of education was greatly broadened to include productive labor and many other related activities. Education was no longer limited to reading books inside the classroom; learning could take place in the workshops and on the farms, and many other places. Teachers were not considered to have a monopoly on knowledge. Workers and farmers and soldiers could all impart experiential knowledge to students. In fact, even students might know something the teachers did not know."
Socialism rests on two pillars: redistribution of money and redistribution of political power. Redistributing political power in the realm of education can have enormously positive impacts on how rural societies view, and benefit from, schooling.
The Yellow Vests want a Cultural Revolution will it succeed? Right now, I'd say 'No"
Brexit, the election of Trump and the Yellow Vests these are all viewed as horrifically negative historical & sociopolitical developments in the West's fake-leftist and elite circles. The Yellow Vests are yet another "basket of deplorables" who have been rendered insane by" what exactly? Racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-Semitism".
Firstly, we should ask, in order to find parallels: did China's deplorables have these problems of prejudice and "identity politics" when their CR started in 1966? Or what about Iran's barefooted?
No, neither did that cannot be disputed and the reason why is indicative of why I feel the Yellow Vests will not achieve their revolutionary goals:
Iran and China already had governments inspired by socialism when they embarked on their Cultural Revolutions, whereas France does not. State-sponsored efforts to end prejudice is just one of many, many proofs which show how much more politically-advanced China and Iran were when they embarked on their Cultural Revolutions than the Yellow Vests are.
I am not blaming the Yellow Vests: because the West has totally rejected socialism's advances and ethos unlike Iran and China they have many types of reactionary problems which China and Iran did not suffer from as strongly at the time of their CRs.
There is a tremendous amount of political regression among the Yellow Vests and their leaders, who have aims which are merely incremental improvements and not truly a new French order. This was illustrated by my last article, A French cop on why French cops will never join the Yellow Vests many Vesters not only expect but want the cops to join them" even though it cannot and should not work because they are the devoted dogs of the reactionary order! Whoever heard of a revolution were the forces of order remained unchanged? Is France still stuck in hippie, utopian 1960s thinking?! Perhaps they are" it leads to regression, individualism and nihilism.
This political-cultural backwardness and conservatism of many Yellow Vests cannot cannot be repaired by an 8-part series, nor by protests which only attracted 2% (1.3 million) of the nation on its biggest day (the first Yellow Vest demonstration, on November 17, 2018, data according to a police union, not the French Interior Ministry).
So when I wrote that "everyone knows" the Yellow Vests are the majority, that is true the problem is that they don't act like it!
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