Posted on 02/04/2021 12:21:25 PM PST by Red Badger
The Vice President of North Carolina’s largest teachers’ association is a self-avowed Marxist activist linked to Liberation Road – a “revolutionary socialist” group that follows the teachings of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong. The “revolutionary” – Bryan Proffitt – leads the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), which boasts over 43,000 members and revenues of over $8,000,000.
Socialism for Your Kids. Proffitt previously served as President of the Durham Association of Educators and as a teacher from 2004 to 2015, also earning a spot as a finalist for the Teacher of the Year award among Durham Public Schools.
Outside the classroom, however, Proffitt is staunchly committed to precipitating a shift to socialism within the United States.
“We are revolutionary socialists in the U.S. dedicated to fighting for a social system where social wealth is not in the hands of a few billionaires, but is controlled by the people,” Proffitt’s Liberation Road provides as its description.
Liberation Road also presents Republicans as “the main enemy”:
Using the framework of the united front, we identify the New Confederacy—composed of the most reactionary faction of capital and middle strata, rightwing racists, united in the Republican Party—as the main enemy. We use this term to emphasize the fact that the Right in this country is rooted in a racist program and strategy
What’s more, the group reveals it follows the teachings of Mao Zedong:
From Mao, the methods of the mass line and the united front — how to learn from the experiences and insights of workers and broad masses to formulate demands and build struggles that are as broad and inclusive as possible yet also really challenge the system; and the insight that the transitional relations of production under the socialist state generate new exploiters who must be prevented from restoring capitalism.
LIBERATION ROAD’S FAQ. “There is also much to learn from the countless fighters who have helped scout the terrain ahead. These include not just Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin and Mao Zedong, but Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Amilcar Cabral, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Antonio Gramsci, Jose Marti, Franz Fanon, Digna Ochoa, Berta Carceres, and many, many more,” the group adds.
Proffitt has authored white papers for the group, hoping they would “encourage more young people to participate in the conversation on organization and what we need to build a revolutionary movement.”
“For the sake of transparency, we are young leaders in Liberation Road/El Camino Para La Liberación, a revolutionary organization with members throughout the United States. But more importantly, we are you…the Young and Left,” the piece begins.
Targeting Schools. In the paper, he instructs his comrades on how to be successful in their quest to bring about socialism in the United States and beyond:
Identify and support new leadership from people’s movements. Study the problems, envision long-term solutions, and create a program to organize for the changes we need. In these organizations, everyone doesn’t have to be everything; cultural workers stand side by side with organizers and people who are talented administrators as everyone works to fill in each other’s gaps. Support and love each other. Coordinate and amplify. By creating a venue where revolutionaries can connect across diverse movements and geographies, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Revolutionary Voltron.
He also addresses a special significance to targeting schools:
Build a common project or campaign with folks who are in social movement organizations, community organizations, unions, schools, and revolutionary organizations. Base the project on local investigation of issues that folks can develop and work on together. We need more base-building, more mass movement. That’s how we create space for people to change their own realities. Revolutionaries, together, have a big role to play here. Doing this kind of work with those that we haven’t before will help to build trust and lasting political relationships that can take us to a higher-level of struggle.
Proffitt was also interviewed in 2008 as part of the “Heirs to a Fighting Tradition: Oral Histories of North Carolina Social Justice Activists” project. During the interview, he insisted “capitalism has to go,” before calling for a revolutionary party:
I’m a revolutionary because I think that capitalism has to go. We can’t make a nicer, more diverse society without eliminating white supremacy. We’re not going to end violence against women until we end a system called patriarchy that says that men are more valuable than women, and that there are only two boxes of genders and that everybody has to fit into one or the other. We’re not going to reform that. To build a revolutionary party, we’re going to have to reform a lot of that stuff along the way.
Time to close K-12?
Home schools is the only solution, short of CW2..................
The only way to save education is to get the government out of it at all levels. Privatize all of it, let parents choose, and provide vouchers for poor kids. How much more of this are people going to ignore? Our Republican state senator sent out a newsletter bragging about spending more money on public ed. I guess that’s what voters want, but it’s hard to believe people want to keep paying horribly high taxes to support a failing school system that teaches their children to hate their parents, Christianity, and the country.
Mao encouraged kids to kill their parents and their teachers. Some students even ATE their teacher during the Cultural Revolution.
He should do more reading on Mao before he heads down this path.
Push back.
Remind the public that neo-Communism is EVERY BIT as repugnant and un-American as neo-NAZIsm is. Both are horrible socialist ideologies that are responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Communists and Klansmen should not be tolerated by polite society.
Public employee unions are not a must but, a happy medium should be that any union representing pub employees must be apolitical, and focused only on workers grievance, work conditions, and contract negotiations. This would create new employees focused unions that are not connected to the afl-cio. And it would stop back door left wing funding at the tax payers expense. It will take moving heaven and hell to accomplish this at the Fed level, but push it in your individual states at the local and state govt levels. Contact your State Reps and Senators now.
One reference shows that North Carolina has more than 7 million registered voters.
Number Of Registered Voters by State 2021
So are us patriots to believe that 43,000 members of NC Teacher Association under Marxist leader are actually out-voting 7+ million North Carolina voters regarding what is being taught in NC schools?
Must be those Dominion voting machines that stole landslide election win from Trump imo.
Speaking of which, the mega-database of alleged problems with 2020 elections still seems to be growing.
Vote fraud evidence - the mega-database (YUGE!, 1.17.21)
“where social wealth is not in the hands of a few billionaires”
Just social media, right, comrade?
I just gotta ask on the authoritarian ideology;
Is this a natural progression due to human nature? or Is this just following the book guidelines?
All this is so familiar. I project many stories my German mother told me into todays current events. I’m trying my best not to get anxious. Like this can’t be happening, but maybe the Undesirables had the same feeling.
I’m soooo happy to know that our educational establishment is in such good hands. /sarc
This gentleman undoubtedly gained friends in the WH on Jan. 20.
PING!
Mao’s Long March also had incidents of cannibalism.
I think you mistake this individual for someone ignorant of those atrocities.
I think they both know and approve of them.
You know what’s so sheepishly naive about this, is that the commies TOLD the US they were going to do this. Why do you think they scream in opposition when the subject of home schooling becomes the headline?
Hey,that’s nothing! The entire Congressional delegation of Massachusetts are Maoists.
One of the main reasons the left is where they are at this time and winning.
Communists and Klansmen should not be tolerated by polite society.
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Klansmen? I thought the subject of the thread was the teaching of Socialism in a school district in North Carolina?
Ping.
Point being the Mao sucking Communists are every bit as vile as the stinking KKK.
Run ALL Communists out of office and taxpayer jobs.
Why surrender the schools to evil tyrants who are brainwashing an army?
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